Tree Crop News

Pome fruit - Insect & mite control

Apple industry welcomes miticide with new MOA

After increased mite pressure in apple orchards in recent seasons and more than a decade since a new mode of action miticide has been introduced, a new product hitting the shelves always was going to be a valuable addition for growers’ control programs.

Fertilisers & nutrition

Bio-fertilisers better N-response in tree crops

Crop advisors have always paid a lot of attention to the health and vigour of tree canopies, but more progressive advisors are also paying plenty of attention to the roots of their crops.

Fertilisers & nutrition

Eurosolids Triathlon for better iron efficiency

Eurosolids is a Dutch producer of specialty fertiliser solutions for fertigation and foliar application distributes its products in more than 100 countries. To do that, it has subsidiaries all over the world. In all markets it has local agronomic know-how to understand the local situations.

General

Collecting accurate weather data on-farm

With the development of technology to remotely monitor a range of factors such as nutrients, soil moisture and weather status, a growing number of farmers are adding this capability to their orchard management.

Fertilisers & nutrition

Yara focus on premium nitrate-based fertilisers

Yara Crop Nutrition has announced it will focus on marketing its range of premium nitrate-based fertilisers in Australia following the divestment of its agricultural liquid fertilisers business in August.

Insect & mite control

IPM, insects and mites… the short version

Plants grow. Insects see them as desirable food. Then they become pests.

Macadamias

New macadamia varieties to lower production costs

Macadamia growers could significantly reduce their labour costs in the future through new tree varieties that are shorter and enter production earlier.

Fruit Fly

Fruit tree removal helps rid fruit fly in GMV

The removal of fruit fly habitat in Victoria’s Goulburn Murray Valley region has impacted on fruit fly activity by disrupting potential habit.

Bees and pollination

Inviting biodiversity benefits into tree crops

In the hills behind Byron Bay at Newrybar, the coffee pioneering Zentvelds family, are in their third year of planting cover crops in select sites across the coffee farm.

Fruit Fly

Autumn fruit flies and warm spring: high risk

Bronwyn Koll expects another high-pressure fruit fly season (2022–2023) given several factors.

Fruit Fly

Fruit fly control major focus in recent years

Controlling fruit fly has become a major focus on the 500 hectares of citrus orchards of the Nutrano Produce Group in the Sunraysia region at Mildura.

Cherries - Pome fruit

CGA ‘AusCherrySure’ MRL app released

Cherry growers who export, must comply with a different set of maximum residue levels (MRLs) for each country.

Pome fruit - Stone Fruit

New sensor for storage disorders in stone fruit

Agriculture Victoria is collaborating with a Melbourne-based agtech company to assess the accuracy and utility of a prototype fluorescence sensor to detect and predict storage disorders in stone fruit.

Pome fruit - Stone Fruit

Stroby WG fungicide now available from AgNova

AgNova has announced a new distribution agreement with BASF Australia for the popular strobilurin fungicide Stroby WG.

Pome fruit - Harvesting

Apple thinning: a returning challenge!

Many of today’s most grown apple varieties need fruit thinning to obtain the right fruit bearing, desired fruit size, and to avoid biennial bearing.