AgFirst’s Jesse Reader interviews Mark Trzaskoma of Battunga Orchards as part of a grower case study of orchard...
More effective and efficient irrigation is required to achieve increasing yield and fruit quality expectations and make best...
AgFirst explains how to combine soil-moisture monitoring and water budgeting, with case studies showing the yield, fruit-size and…
The Future Orchards® March 2015 orchard walks looked at ways to review the performance of our current season...
Future Orchards® article on reviewing block performance at harvest and using orchard design, task measurement and technology to…
Jesse Reader documents a successful orchard grafting project and the practical management required to rework established trees despite…
AgFirst’s Jesse Reader explains how grafting was used to successfully rework an orchard in response to the drought...
Future Orchards® article on practical ways to reduce harvest labour demand through better work flow, canopy access, picking…
AgFirst explores where efficiency gains can be made by using picking platforms that can improve picker productivity and...
Craig Hornblow of AgFirst examines the economics and operating requirements of picking platforms, including productivity gains, capital cost,…
Five-part Future Orchards® presentation series by Chilean consultant Mauricio Frias on orchard mechanisation, canopy design and labour-efficient production…
Karen Lewis of Washington State University outlines labour challenges in modern orchards and the role of platforms, mechanical…
Links harvest results with post-harvest nutrition planning, using crop performance and orchard measurements to guide nutrient decisions for…
As part of APAL’s Future Orchards® program, Ulf Kerer shares a suite of the latest orchard management, tree...
Ulf Kerer reviews multi-leader trees, fruit walls and mechanical pruning in Europe, showing how simplified orchard structures can…
