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SA growers count crop losses after hail strikes again

Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 4.47pm

  For the second consecutive year, growers in the South Australian Adelaide Hills have been struck by severe hail storms, just as the new season’s young fruit was forming. The series of wild storm fronts hit during the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, 21 November, causing widespread power outages and delivering hail to most of […]

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Trans-Tasman biosecurity alliance

Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 2.13pm

Led by Australia’s Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI) and New Zealand’s Better Border Biosecurity (B3NZ) and cemented by a Memorandum of Understanding between Australia and New Zealand, a new joint initiative will focus on biosecurity Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) efforts at pre-border, border, and post-border stages. The initiative also aims to build capacity to […]

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Australian cherry harvest underway

Fruit Growers Tasmania | Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 1.30pm

The Australian cherry harvest is underway, with growers anticipating a large crop and good season. This season also marks the first full season that cherry growers on the Australian mainland can export to the Chinese mainland, and shipments of Australian fruit have already started to arrive in China by air-freight.

 

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Protecting Workers – Agriculture’s License to Operate

Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Monday, 26 November 2018, 12.04pm

Apple and Pear Australia Ltd (APAL) has categorically condemned the mistreatment of agricultural workers and denounced unscrupulous operators who damage the ‘clean, green’ reputation of Australian industry as a whole. Responding to the Harvest Trail Inquiry released by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), APAL has expressed serious concern at the level of non-compliance detailed and […]

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Diversity is core business at Hort Innovation as members elect new directors’

Hort Innovation | Friday, 23 November 2018, 7.28pm

Voting members of Hort Innovation, Australia’s national horticultural Research and Development Corporation (RDC), today elected three new board directors at their Brisbane AGM, increasing their female representation to four out of nine directors. The newly elected director, Ms Julie Bird, has a broad background in the Australian horticulture industry spanning over 25 years. Ms Susan…

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Multi-million dollar project to design the tree of the future

Hort Innovation | Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 11.40am

Australian researchers have turned to plant genetics to help solve DNA mysteries and create the horticultural tree crops of the future under a new $13.3 million joint research project. Delivered through Hort Innovation under the Hort Frontiers strategic partnership initiative, this five-year project will develop a breeder’s genomic toolkit for tree breeders and researchers to…

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Trans-Tasman alliance to stamp out threats to national biosecurity

Hort Innovation | Friday, 16 November 2018, 11.22am

Hort Innovation has proudly thrown its support behind a new joint initiative to combat threats to our plant biosecurity. Cemented by a Memorandum of Understanding between Australia and New Zealand, the Trans-Tasman collaborative, led by Australia’s Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI) and New Zealand’s Better Border Biosecurity (B3NZ), will focus on biosecurity Research, Development and…

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