AUSVEG Weekly Update – 23 April 2019

Renee Pye is a 24-year-old grower from Zerella Fresh in South Australia. We profiled her in the April/May 2019 edition of Potatoes Australia magazine.

E.E. Muir & Sons is a major distributor of fertilisers, chemicals, seeds and other farm supplies to the Australian agriculture industry.

The Awards for Excellence will be presented on Friday 3 May at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Victoria. Secure your tickets now!

Head to the Hort Connections Instagram to see how you can win a prize including flights, accommodation and an all-access pass to #HortCon19!

Applications for 2019 Churchill Fellowships close on Tuesday 30 April – make sure you don’t miss out!

HARPS is a retailer-led scheme designed to assist with compliance to food safety, legal and trade legislation for suppliers to the major grocery retailers in Australia. Training will be held in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from 18-20 June.

Over a two year period, CSIRO and DAF researchers completed five glasshouse pot trials using tomato spotted wilt virus in capsicum to determine if hyperspectral imaging can detect crop problems before the human eye.

The Awards for Excellence are a fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding contributions of individuals and companies in our industry.

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

On top of bi-weekly wholesale market price reports, Hort Innovation also publishes monthly reports with longer-term price trends, including three-month price forecasts.