AgFirst Future Orchards® presentation outlining the roadmap to a more internationally competitive Australian apple and pear industry through…
Future Orchards® 2012 roadmap outlining the program’s goals for intensive orchard systems, lower unit costs, more premium fruit,…
Historical June 2008 Future Orchards 2012 orchard-walk report from the Goulburn Valley, documenting the program’s ongoing block-monitoring approach.
Historical report from the April 2008 Future Orchards orchard walk in Batlow, part of the program’s recurring regional…
Future Orchards® Cripps Pink Monitor Block analysis examining tree density, TCA, crop load, tree age and yield to…
Future Orchards® presentation on assessing Cripps Pink maturity and using repeated fruit measurements to balance colour, eating quality,…
Marcel Veens presentation on Cripps Pink harvest management, balancing colour, size, maturity, selective picking, labour cost and packout…
Dr Gordon Brown explains pomefruit maturation, harvest-maturity testing and storage physiology, including starch, firmness, ethylene, temperature, oxygen, carbon…
Dr Gordon Brown explains specific apple replant disease, its effect on young-tree establishment and the importance of recognising…
Dr Gordon Brown reviews soil treatments for replant pests and diseases and explains why pre-plant management is critical…
14 November 2007 Batlow orchard walk report on young-tree establishment, heading, branch bending, irrigation, fertigation and adapting South…
Future Orchards® notes and presentation by John Wilton and Ross Wilson of AgFirst on optimum crop load, fruit…
Future Orchards® spreadsheet developed by AgFirst to calculate target fruit numbers per tree from yield, fruit-size and thinning-to-harvest…
Dr John Palmer reviews high-density orchard principles, linking tree density with rootstock, canopy management, establishment cost, early production…
Martin Thomann reviews three decades of intensive apple production in South Tyrol, focusing on orchard systems, early production,…
