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AOA webinar: Managing olive lace bug
Olive lace bug remains an important pest for the Australian industry and has recently been a major problem for many locations in NSW (particularly the Hunter Valley) and southern Western Australia. One of the reasons has been the weather patterns that have favoured...
Consumer usage and attitude tracking webinars
The Hort Innovation data team is hosting two webinars in August that will reveal the latest consumer insights for vegetables, and fruit, dried fruit and nuts. The information has been produced through the company’s multi-industry project Consumer usage and attitude...
AOA Healthy Soils – Smart Farms Grant Compost Trial Results Field Day
The next in the AOA’s continuing series of extension events has been scheduled, with the program building on the previous successful round of national Health Soils Field Days. Being held at Peninsula Providore’s Nangkita Grove on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula,...
2023 Australian International Olive Awards – have you entered yet?
Ongoing quality improvement is one of the aims of the industry’s Strategic Investment Plan and R&D priorities, and the Australian International Olive Awards (AIOA) is one of the industry’s major avenues for promoting that quality improvement. The AIOA prides...
Eyeing a future where fruit pickers are trained by virtual reality
Training fruit pickers using virtual reality equipment, employing robots to move fruit containers and wearing exoskeletons to support physical labour are all possibilities being considered by Australian berry growers to boost labour efficiency. Delivered through Hort...