Stephen Tancred’s November 2012 Future Orchards® presentation focuses on powdery mildew, outlining the pest or disease risk and…
Stephen Tancred’s November 2012 Future Orchards® presentation focuses on woolly apple aphid, outlining the pest or disease risk…
This November 2012 fact sheet summarises Australian research on Alternaria leaf blotch and fruit spot, providing growers with…
Stephen Tancred’s November 2012 notes frame pest and disease management as a profitability issue, asking growers to judge…
Karen Lewis outlines how orchard design, work organisation, mechanisation and labour management can be combined to improve productivity…
October 2012 Australian Fruitgrower article introducing the numbered Focus Orchard update series and the use of commercial orchards,…
Australian Fruitgrower article by AgFirst on using chemical thinning to manage biennial bearing, crop load, return bloom and…
AgFirst webinar comparing orchard systems through density, rootstock, canopy form, light use, labour needs, early yield and establishment…
AgFirst webinar on orchard-system economics, linking establishment cost, early yield, mature production, fruit value and labour efficiency to…
Stephen Tancred’s August 2012 Australian Fruitgrower article reviews black spot management in apples, emphasising preventive programs, infection risk,…
Australian Fruitgrower resource on orchard profitability, linking marketable yield, packout, quality, price, production costs, block-level benchmarking and management…
AgFirst Future Orchards® business planning guidelines covering vision, SWOT analysis, SMART objectives, KPIs, climate and site risks, orchard…
Future Orchards® Orchard Walk notes and presentation by Ross Wilson of AgFirst covering orchard business planning, vision and…
Future Orchards® orchard business plan template developed by AgFirst to help growers document business direction, objectives, responsibilities, production…
Future Orchards® notes and slides on converting block objectives into simple pruning rules that crews can apply consistently,…
