Does orchard netting affect insect visitation to apple flowers in Stanthorpe, Queensland?
August 10, 2021Jeremy Jones, Stephen Tancred, Charlie Bailey, Karen Bezerra da Silva Santos, Erandi Subasinghe and Romina Rader This article…
Growers: Soil Your Undies!
August 4, 2021Would you soil your undies for a good cause? Wait, what? The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) PIPS3 Program’s…
Selenium – an essential trace element for apples
This article originally appeared in the 2021 Winter edition of AFG. Dr Gordon Brown reviews an Iranian paper…
Vale: Professor Jens Wünsche
February 10, 2021The apple and pear industry has lost a passionate and tireless inquisitor and innovator in German researcher Professor…
Cartographer maps path to uniform, high quality pears
January 9, 2021New crop mapping technology has insights for managing crop load variability and improving packouts. Crop load and yield…
Flowering stage detection shows ‘amazing accuracy’
December 15, 2020Apple flowering stages from green tip to petal fall can now be accurately detected and mapped by machines…
PIPS3: Improved Australian apple and pear orchards soil health and plant nutrition
November 18, 2020Hort Innovation has kicked off the third Apple and Pear industry Productivity, Irrigation, Pests and Soils (PIPS3) program….
Understanding chemical thinners and growth regulators
October 14, 2020Chemical thinners and growth regulators can be powerful tools in managing crop load, harvest timing and quality, but…
Volunteers in the orchard and how to look after them
October 7, 2020This article was written by Dr Katja Hogendoorn, Dr Scott Groom, and Professor Andy Lowe from The University…
State roundups: spring edition
September 23, 2020Find out what’s happening in each growing state entering Spring (note that this article was written several weeks…
