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8/01/2009 | An internationally recognised highly toxic insecticide will continue to be used widely by Australian horticultural industries, despite New Zealand becoming the most recent country to institute a total ban.  | CommentsComments (5) | First Australian lychees ... | Sensible spending ensures ...
Sensible spending ensures profitability
30/12/2008 | Spending within their means has been one factor that has sustained the Simpfendorfer family's horticultural business for more than 50 years.
Rich pickings as Pacific Islander trial bears fruit
14/12/2008 | South Pacific Islanders will be brought to Australia to pick fruit in the Riverina because farmers cannot get enough local workers.   | CommentsComments (3) | Big rain for southern Australia | Tax cuts to boost regional ...
Banana industry appeals banana imports decision
12/12/2008 | The Australian Banana Growers' Council is today lodging an appeal with the Import Risk Analysis Appeal Panel against the decision by federal quarantine regulator Biosecurity Australia to recommend the importation of bananas from the Philippines.  | CommentsComments (2) | Mango yields proving unpredictable | Banana industry bounces back ...
Panama disease detection worry
10/12/2008 | Panama disease, also known as fusarium wilt, has been detected in a commercial Lady Finger banana plantation near Mareeba.  | Banana industry bounces back ... | Boost for Tas cherry exports to ...
GPS system on-the-level
10/12/2008 | Large-scale Werribee South horticulturalist Amo Mason, Victoria, is a noted GPS steering enthusiast with four tractors sporting AutoFarm receivers but he's also using GPS for 2cm precision height control of his land plane.  | Hort code breaches detected in Qld | Mango yields proving unpredictable
8/12/2008 | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has detected breaches of the horticultural code of conduct by a Queensland produce trader.
Boost for Tas cherry exports to Japan
2/12/2008 | Tasmania's premium cherries can now be exported to the valuable Japanese market under an improved quarantine protocol that is expected to generate millions of additional export dollars.   | New spud chips away at diabetes ... | Going cherry crazy
Rain ignites Qld vegie engine room
27/11/2008 | The engine room of Queensland horticulture is poised to switch to overdrive in the aftermath of an extraordinary weather event dumping unseasonal rains on the near-parched Lockyer Valley district.  | Going cherry crazy | Global financial shock hits ...
25/11/2008 | AUSVEG Ltd has appointed a new board of directors at its annual general meeting held in Melbourne yesterday, following the adoption of a new constitution for the company last month.  | Global financial shock hits ... | Veg industry to highlight its ...
Veg industry to highlight its low-carbon footprint
21/11/2008 | Measuring the carbon footprint of the vegetable industry is the subject of a series of discussion papers released this week by Horticulture Australia Limited.   | CommentsComments (2) | Worse to come in banana ... | Premium produce vital for ...
ACCC warns fruit growers to protect their summer harvest
17/11/2008 | Growers trading produce without a Horticulture Produce Agreement required by the mandatory Horticulture Code of Conduct could be placing themselves at unnecessary risk this growing season, according to the ACCC.   | Premium produce vital for ... | Filippino bananas a grave ...
Worse to come in banana quarantine row: IbisWorld
14/11/2008 | Business analyst firm IbisWorld is forecasting worse things to come for Australian agriculture, following yesterday's conditional recommendation from Biosecurity Australia that Filippino bananas be allowed into the country.  | CommentsComments (3) | Food business to survive ... | Premium produce vital for ...
Keep Merbein Research Lab open: NSW Farmers
30/10/2008 | The NSW Farmers’ Association will lobby the NSW and Federal Government in a bid to keep the historic Merbein Horticultural Research Laboratory, near Mildura, open and operating.   | CSIRO outlines changed role for ... | Banana prices to halve
30/10/2008 | Fruit king Nick Moraitis – who finds out tonight whether he has won the Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award at a ceremony hosted by National Australia Bank – is not worried about the worldwide economic slowdown.   | Consortium in new bid for fruit ... | Wholesale markets in doubt | AUDIO: Fruit king not worried about ...
Market turbulence: vegie swindlers weeded out
27/10/2008 | It's become a Saturday morning staple for thousands of Canberrans to head to the Capital Region Farmers' Markets to buy fresh, home-grown produce. But what started four years ago as a small venture of just 12 stalls at Exhibition Park in Canberra run by the Rotary Club of Hall has now become a major enterprise.  | Banana prices to halve | Wholesale markets in doubt
CSIRO outlines changed role for Sunraysia research
23/10/2008 | CSIRO remains 'committed to assist planning of an alternative model for horticultural research in the Sunraysia district'. But it will continue with its plan to consolidate its wine research in Adelaide, moving it from the Merbein research station.  | Bottled wine exports on the rise | Growers vote in favour of ...
Banana prices to halve
22/10/2008 | Woolworths is expecting a bumper banana crop from north Queensland will hit stores nationwide in about a fortnight, with prices set to halve.  | Orange research helps apple ... | Paris to taste Australia’s ...
Growers vote in favour of creating Citrus Australia
14/10/2008 | History has been made today in Griffith, NSW, where Australian citrus growers have voted to wind up the existing peak body Australian Citrus Growers Inc and form Citrus Australia Ltd.  | Melamine scare in Chinese ... | Heinz $288m bid for Golden Circle
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