Insect & mite control
IPM, insects and mites… the short version
Plants grow. Insects see them as desirable food. Then they become pests.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Stone Fruit
Why peach stones split and what causes gum?
Peaches, like all stone fruit, grow in three stages. Understanding this can help you to understand the factors contributing to stone split and gum to exude from peaches, Bas van den Ende writes.
Stone Fruit
Highly anticipated NZ apricots set to launch
New Zealand’s summerfruit industry has established NZ Summerfresh Ltd to commercialise the first three new apricot cultivars released by Plant & Food Research after nearly two decades of research and development.
Stone Fruit
Non-destructive quality measuring in stone fruit
Measuring changes in stone fruit ripeness during fruit growth is an important step to help determine when growers need to harvest and guide them with their postharvest handling and marketing strategy.
Mangoes
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Branching out
New mango comms manager
The Australian Mango Industry Association has welcomed a new communication manager. After the departure of Jessica Mitchell after six years of dedicated work, the AMIA has welcomed Gabby Taylor to take on the comms role.
News
New owners, same quality
After more than 10 years of ownership, Rural Business and Australian Tree Crop magazines have been sold by the owners of Ag Communication Solutions, John Forrest and Jeff Gilbert. The new owner is McPherson Media Group (MMG), an independent publishing group based in Shepparton, Victoria.
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