Tree Crop News

Macadamias

Rat solution in macadamias

Controlling rats in macadamia orchards used to be very tricky. Infestations are generally quite hard to detect until they have already caused significant damage and loss.

Pome fruit - Stone Fruit - Insect & mite control

Angler trap targets Carpophilus beetle

Grochem offers a new trapping system for Carpophilus beetle – a major pest in ripening stone and pome fruit.

Cherries

Australia’s cherry sector in growth phase

Australia’s cherry sector is in an expansion phase, with growing consumer appetite for the fruit locally and in export markets.

Insect & mite control

Sivanto prime tough on pests but not predators

Especially in wet seasons like 2022, horticultural pest and disease pressure in the Wide Bay area of Queensland can be very high.

Insect & mite control

Getting it ‘done’ should mean getting it ‘right’

In tree, vines and trellised vegetables crops, product application rates based on ground area, expressed as rate of product per hectare, were once considered satisfactory but can easily result in the grower either underdosing or overdosing crops with product.

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.