Variety of current grants available to boost apple and pear growers
September 9, 2020Fully funded scholarships are now available for women in the apple and pear industry to complete a range of leadership…
Sterile fruit flies helping to bring down QFly numbers
Releases of sterile fruit flies at two Australian locations have significantly reduced Queensland fruit fly numbers. The pilot,…
Building Food Safety Management Capacity
August 19, 2020Growers and packers focus on food safety management individually because every packhouse system is different. Flexibility in ensuring…
Good news for South East as irrigation prices expected to drop
August 5, 2020The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is forecasting lower water prices in the…
Illuminating the future orchard
Sundials have been used for over 3000 years to draw knowledge from light. Invented to measure the time…
Biosecurity – What’s in it for me or why should I bother?
July 29, 2020For Australian Fruitgrower magazine APAL Technical Manager Rose Daniel and biosecurity expert Dr. Kevin Clayton-Greene explore what happens…
Pruning for vigour management
July 15, 2020Optimising vigour is critical for growing high yields of top-quality fruit. Pruning plays an important role in vigour…
Virtual Winter Walks delivers insights to growers from comfort of their own orchards
July 8, 2020Over the course of the last three weeks, APAL streamed virtual Future Orchards® Winter Orchard Walks live to…
Drought and water use efficiency – what can we learn from other crops?
June 24, 2020APAL is holding the third webinar of it’s well attended free webinar series next week: Managing through drought,…
Reg Weine joins APAL Board of Directors
June 3, 2020Reg Weine has joined APAL’s Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director, bringing an impressive CV to the…
