Recovering from fire: what should be done first?
January 15, 2020As the clean-up continues, many growers are assessing their properties and beginning work to reinstate infrastructure to secure…
$75,000 in emergency bushfire grants for farming businesses
Farm, fish, and forestry businesses in fire-affected regions will have access to $100 million in emergency bushfire recovery…
Water budget key to irrigation decision-making
The most common method used for scheduling orchard irrigation is ‘experience’. While this can be reasonably accurate in…
Surging secondary market spurs on organics
December 20, 2019By ALEX WISDOM, APAL Half a decade ago, the organics industry in Australia was a niche market…
Summer State Roundups
December 17, 2019Featured in the upcoming Summer edition of AFG, a representative from each growing state’s peak body recounts the…
Key messages from Spring Future Orchards walks
December 4, 2019Plan ahead. Technology can help to build a uniform orchard, and a uniform orchard will ease integration of…
The short, the medium and the long-term potential of ag-tech
The idea of an orchard buzzing with flying robotic harvesters may sound like something out of The Jetsons,…
Protect your enterprise by developing a Biosecurity management plan
December 2, 2019Pip Cotter – NSW, DPI A biosecurity management plan describes the steps you can take to minimise the…
New technologies, advocacy, and looking forward
November 20, 2019Michele Allan presented this speech to the APAL AGM on 14 November 2019. Welcome everyone and thank you…
Five themes from the Grower R&D Update
November 19, 2019While Queensland cricketers narrowly defeated Victoria in the Sheffield Shield match taking place on the spotless grass of…
