Tree Crop News

Pome fruit

Launch of third apple and pear orchard program

Program covers apple and pear orchards across the country.

Marketing & export

AgTech solution to boost food provenance

End-to-end traceability delivered through blockchain technology could provide a new level of trust.

Stone Fruit

Potential for fantastic cherry season

Growers optimistic about upcoming cherry season

Water supply & irrigation

South East water prices expected to drop

ABARES forecasts lower water prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin in 2020–21

Pome fruit

First QTee pear planting start in Australia

Growers across Australia have begun the first plantings of QTee pear trees.

Marketing & export

Counterfeiters caught by ‘smart’ fingerprints

Individual images are applied to product packaging in the form of a 'fingerprint'.

Mangoes - Business solutions & labour

Seasonal and Pacific Worker pilot programme to be trialled in the NT

Trial addressing labour shortages affecting NT farmers.

Flowering, thinning & PGRs

Getting the facts on pollination

New R&D project to improve pollination

Disease & weed control - Insect & mite control

Additional $2.4 million for improved access to AgVet chemicals

Extension of the Improved Access to Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals program.

Avocado

Westfalia launches new avo rootstocks

Two new avocado rootstocks to be introduced.

Mangoes - Marketing & export

CQ producer wins Honey Gold grower award

Piñata Farms names 2020 Honey Gold Grower of the Year.

Avocado - Cherries - Mangoes - Pome fruit - Stone Fruit - Flowering, thinning & PGRs

Bee attractant expands use

Popular bee attractant expands its crop usage

Almonds - Flowering, thinning & PGRs

Nine billion bees on their way to Victoria's almond crops

Australia's largest mass migration of livestock — in the form of bees — is underway.

Pome fruit

'Climate change-resistant' apple that can keep its colour and crunch could be grown in Australia

An apple touted as the first in the world to be resistant to climate change could be grown in Australia as early as next year.

Avocado - Post harvest

Improving avocado fruit quality: evaluation of post-harvest treatments

In Australia, the primary diseases affecting avocado fruit after harvest are anthracnose and stem-end rot.