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Marketing & export - Packaging & labelling

Hong Kong Customs seizes cherries falsely marketed as Tasmanian

Every single carton had a unique QR code.

Pome fruit

Apple harvest underway

Difficulties with the recruitment, management and retention of harvest labour

Fruit Fly

$13 million to strengthen Australia’s fruit fly research

Six projects approved to address gaps in our understanding of fruit fly.

Olives

Using sugar from olive pits

High quality of sugars extracted from olive pits could be used in several different industrial processes.

Flowering, thinning & PGRs

New artificial pollination technology for Australian almonds

Technology will be tested in almond orchards in Victoria.

Flowering, thinning & PGRs

Queen bee shortage

Queen bees are vital to each beehive because it is the only bee capable of laying fertilised eggs.

Business solutions & labour

Workplaces after COVID: What you need to know

After COVID office settings will look different and it will not simply be a return to old ways of doing business.

Tropical trees

Growth of Australian lychee industry on track

New tree plantings in recent seasons will increase lychee volumes in the next 5-10 years.

Harvesting - Technology in agriculture

Flying autonomous fruit-picking robots

Kubota invests in Tevel an industry leader in flying autonomous fruit-picking.

Business solutions & labour - Establishment & maintenance - Marketing & export - Technology in agriculture

Coles opens new round of Nurture Fund

Grant of up to $500,000 to help producers develop new market-leading products, technologies and processes.

Almonds

Record almond harvest is coming

123,000 tonnes of almonds are expected to be harvest in the coming weeks

Post harvest

Labour automation now crucial for producers

Automation protects against unexpected market shocks which can cause major picking and packhouse staff shortages.

Pome fruit - Technology in agriculture

Australian trial protecting pears with solar panels

Solar panels will protect fruit and further earn their keep through the generation of electricity.

Fertilisers & nutrition

Nutrition is more than just NPK ratio

High quality prills mean better nutrient distribution and availability for hort crops.

Avocado

Feasibility study for 300-hectare avocado project completed

Farm will produce avocados from September to February when supply is limited from the rest of Australia.

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