AUSVEG Weekly Update – 4 August 2020

It is important that industries are best prepared for the arrival of new pests and diseases. It is a good idea to have a plan for … Read more

As COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Victoria and some parts of New South Wales, people are being urged to explore a range of COVID-19 … Read more

The horticulture industry is lucky enough to welcome workers with diverse backgrounds and experiences that make the industry an interesting and exciting place to work. … Read more

Corrigan’s Produce Farms is a sixth-generation family-owned and operated business. Alongside her family, Stephanie Corrigan helps farm, manage and market vegetables over numerous locations within in the City … Read more

Recent incidents involving food safety and food tampering in the fresh produce sector have raised the need to address the preparedness of businesses to address, … Read more

Hort Innovation is building a foundational understanding of the seasonal workforce requirements for the horticulture sector and to understand the impacts that COVID-19 has had … Read more

Directors and boards, senior executives, and business owners in the wider food industry are invited to attend Food Innovation Australia Ltd’s (FIAL) Food Safety Governance For … Read more

Paul Windolf is a third generation farmer from Windolf Farms in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley. Windolf farms is a family-owned and run vegetable production business which produces potatoes in … Read more

EnviroVeg is an industry-led environmental best-practice management program for vegetable production businesses. It provides resources for sustainable growing techniques and represents vegetable businesses as responsible … Read more

We’re all missing the chance to catch up face-to-face at industry events and farm walks, but there is still plenty of important work underway to … Read more

What could weeds, cover crops and strip-till have in common? In a new podcast from the Soil Wealth ICP team, agronomists Dr Pieter Van Nieuwenhuyse … Read more

Soil sampling and testing is usually done prior to planting a crop; however, specific in-crop testing can be useful e.g. testing for available nitrate and ammonium. … Read more

Farm Writers’ Association of NSW recently held a webinar to explore the power of plants and the current outlook for horticulture in NSW. If you missed … Read more

Hort Innovation is offering four fully paid scholarships to the 2020 PMA A-NZ Produce Executive Program, available exclusively to vegetable levy payers. This year’s program … Read more

Powdery scab is an economically important disease of potato crops in Australia and New Zealand, and around the world. This is because the lesions on … Read more

Dr Luz Angelica Suarez is a postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre (AARSC) at the University of New England. Through the … Read more