Farm Weekly News Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content.

News

Horticulture

National Rural News

Australia refuses to join ban on pesticide

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. |

Comments (6) | First Australian lychees ... | Sensible spending ensures ...

Horticulture - General

Innovation bears fruit for family farm

6/01/2009 | Tony Spurling, of the family-run Gateway Hydroponics greenhouse in Coldstream, Yarra Valley, Vic, runs a farm-gate store which is a budding showcase for local produce. |

Comments (1) | Rich pickings as Pacific ... | First Australian lychees ...

Horticulture - Fruit

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.

Horticulture - General

First Australian lychees exported to New Zealand

15/12/2008 | For the first time fresh lychees from Australia have been exported to New Zealand after years of quarantine negotiations. |

Comments (2) | GPS system on-the-level | Hort code breaches detected in Qld

Horticulture - Flowers

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. |

Comments (3) | Big rain for southern Australia | Tax cuts to boost regional ...

Horticulture - General

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. |

Comments (2) | Mango yields proving unpredictable | Banana industry bounces back ...

Horticulture - General

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 ...

Horticulture - General

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

Horticulture - General

Hort code breaches detected in Qld

8/12/2008 | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has detected breaches of the horticultural code of conduct by a Queensland produce trader.

Horticulture - General

Mango yields proving unpredictable

4/12/2008 | Queensland’s mango harvest is well underway but yields are not looking good for the tropical fruit.

Horticulture - Fruit

Banana industry bounces back from Larry

3/12/2008 | North Queensland banana grower and wholesaler, Pat Arcella, is optimistic about the future of the Queensland banana industry despite the threat of banana imports from the Philippines continuing to loom over the domestic industry.

Horticulture - Fruit

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

Horticulture - General

Senate inquiry to assess banana imports

28/11/2008 | The terms of reference were released yesterday for a Senate Inquiry that will examine the facts about the import risk analysis for the importation of Cavendish bananas from the Philippines. | Veg industry to highlight its ... | Going cherry crazy

Horticulture - Flowers

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 ...

Horticulture - General

AUSVEG board of directors announced

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 ...

Horticulture - General

New spud chips away at diabetes and in-crop water use

24/11/2008 | A new, healthier variety of potato is set to take the Australian market by storm. Unlike most spuds, Almera is suitable for people who are diabetic or striving to maintain a healthy weight. |

Comments (3) | Going cherry crazy | Roos just a short hop away from ...

Horticulture - Vegetables

Going cherry crazy

23/11/2008 | An estimated 25,000 people are expected to go cherry crazy at the 59th National Cherry Festival in Young, with the event’s stature attracting visitors from far and wide.

Horticulture - Fruit

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. |

Comments (2) | Worse to come in banana ... | Premium produce vital for ...

Horticulture - General

AUSVEG adopts new constitution

18/11/2008 | AUSVEG, the national peak industry representative organisation for the vegetable and potato industries, has adopted a new constitution which will see it move away from being a federation of state representative organisations to having direct grower membership. | Filippino bananas a grave ... | Premium produce vital for ...

Horticulture - Flowers

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 ...

Horticulture - General