Tree Crop News

Pome fruit

Batlow Apples eyes $6m expansion

Batlow Fruit Company is eyeing expansion that could create 47 full-time jobs.

Cherries - Marketing & export

UTAS team developing new way to stop Asian cherry counterfeiters

Cloud based system helps consumers know they are getting the genuine product.

Mangoes - Tropical trees

Sharing research and technology with the University of Florida

NT government agreement facilitates research into tropical fruits.

Citrus - Disease & weed control

Researchers find peptide that treats, prevents killer citrus disease

Treatment causes deadly bacterium to leak and die.

General

$15 billion horticulture value in Hort Stats Handbook

Value of horticultural production increased by 4.5%.

Specialty tree crops

New date varieties to be trialled

The date industry is under represented in Australia.

Pome fruit

Smitten apples launched

2021 is the fourth season for the Smitten variety

Stone Fruit

Vietnam approval of new Australian biosecurity facility

Vietnam to receive produce from new Melbourne irradiation facility.

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.