AUSVEG Weekly Update – 23 October 2018

Take a look at this edition for everything from a recap of the recent AuSPICA Potato Industry Conference to interviews about our industry’s future.

Victorian mushroom grower Chris McLoghlin has won the Kondinin Group and ABC Rural 2018 Young Australian Farmer of the Year award.

An upcoming meeting for Victorian vegetable growers will feature Paul Horne from IPM technologies and highlight some new label claims in Bayer’s vegetable portfolio.

Apply before Wednesday 31 October 2018 for your chance to receive a $10,000 bursary for an idea or project benefiting rural and regional Australia.

Registering your job requirements will give the government valuable information and help it understand the depth of the labour shortages facing Australian growers.

PEMS is an IT system used to capture and store information about Australian plant exports, including inspection results for plant export product and transport units.

This free, levy-funded workshop will deliver practical, hands-on training for pest and disease identification in the vegetable industry thanks to the VegPRO project.

Watch this one-hour session to get the latest updates from vegetable industry experts, including IPM Technologies, E.E. Muir & Sons and Schreurs & Sons.

In this short video, Dr Len Tesoriero from the Soil Wealth/ICP project discusses the identification, causes and management of this lettuce virus.

Labile carbon is the carbon most readily available to microorganisms as a carbon and energy source and is a useful indicator of soil biological activity.

The Soil Wealth/ICP project is exploring key issues, including the value of cover crops over the wet season and IPM, at its new site.

The Dialog Group is Australia’s largest privately owned information technology professional services organisation, providing services to corporate and government organisations.

This snapshot is part of the new ABARES Insights series and provides evidence and statistics showing the achievements and challenges underpinning modern Australian agriculture.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level, apply for a $10,000 scholarship for the Masterclass in Horticultural Business.

More than 4 million Australians have experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months, with a huge spike in this number within regional communities.

If you’ve used permit PER14385 for prometryn for weeds in taro, daikon, galangal, burdock, yam, turmeric and/or yam bean, provide your feedback here.

Those interested in presenting at the Hort Connections 2019 conference in Melbourne from 24-26 June are invited to apply via the online application form.