Future Orchards: Creating positive change within your orchard (Part III)
September 5, 2022This article was written by Jonathan Brookes, Horticultural Consultant, AgFirst, and was first published in the Winter 2022 edition…
Digging into Healthy Soils – PIPS3 Program update
November 17, 2021Article co-authored by Susie Green, Michele Buntain and Marguerite White. Fruit Producers SA, in conjunction with Susie Green…
Farming by numbers: metrics that matter
September 8, 2021Jack Wilson, AgFirst Horticultural Consultant Measuring and using orchard data to drive decision-making delivers decisions that are more…
Positioning your blocks for labour efficiencies
June 1, 2021Are changes to your blocks needed to meet your labour and fruit quality objectives and achieve efficiencies? During…
Working smarter, not harder
April 28, 2021Attract and retain workers Quality gains outstrip harvest cost savings Simple, accessible, consistent canopies essential Securing labour was…
Lessons learnt from Covid-19
The impact the Covid-19 virus has had on the world is unprecedented. The level and type of threat…
Focus Orchards – Labour experiences and thoughts for the future
April 21, 2021Following on from the March Future Orchards orchard walk where Ross Wilson and I focused our presentation on…
IPDM withstands pests, diseases and natural disasters
November 4, 2020This article was written by David Williams and Emily Crawford for the Spring edition of Australian Frutigrower Magazine….
Harvest assist platforms: What’s out there?
October 7, 2020With a reduced pool of labour across the country now looking inevitable, growers are beginning to look at…
IPDM withstands pests, diseases and natural disasters
October 1, 2020A national collaborative online IPDM resource aims to give growers the tools and practical knowledge to make orchards…
