Planting systems for blush pears
September 4, 2019Agriculture Victoria shares the results of their experiment within the Profitable Pears project to help identify the best…
Make a smart crop load management choice
In a commercial orchard in Tasmania a mix of different thinning and crop load management techniques have been…
Precision fertigation to improve productivity
September 3, 2019Over three years, Nigel Swarts and the team at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) have investigated optimising…
Strategically managing water and nitrogen
Researchers are transforming existing knowledge about how apple trees take up and use nitrogen and water into a…
Advances in codling moth control in orchards
Parasitoid wasps, mass trapping of female codling moths and the use of mating disruption could, when combined, help control…
Finding the triggers of biennial bearing in apples
Australian and German researchers from the Productivity, Irrigation, Pests and Soils (PIPS) program are embarking on a new project to…
IPDM experts, tools, and resources head online
June 5, 2019By Emily Crawford, Project Officer, Agriculture Victoria, Tatura Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPDM) is becoming increasingly important…
Winter Future Orchards® Walk – update
May 30, 2019Climatic Events – ways to mitigate climate risk The next round of the Future Orchards® walks in June…
Award winners aren’t slowing down any time soon
April 3, 2019As the APAL Forum and Awards for Excellence approach in June, we caught up with some of last…
Chemical thinning: Can US tool benefit Aussie apple growers?
October 21, 2018Could a tool used in the US to help apple growers better manage secondary thinning to optimise fruit…
