Webinar: VegWatch Showcase: Building a Biosecure Future for the Australian vegetable industry
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Webinar: VegWatch Showcase: Building a Biosecure Future for the Australian vegetable industry
2 December @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Australia’s vegetable industry is strengthening its defenses against emerging biosecurity threats
VegWatch is a national biosecurity and business continuity program, funded through Hort Innovation, that brings together industry, research, and government to develop an agile framework to protect and prepare Australia’s vegetable industry pest and disease risks while supporting long-term business resilience.
We are two years into the program now. This showcase brings together our program partners to provide an update on the tools and systems that VegWatch is developing to support pest monitoring and surveillance, rapid response capabilities and support for market access and business continuity.
You will hear about:
Industry Biosecurity Planning and Preparedness
- Priority pests for Australian vegetables and how they were identified
Risk mapping, surveillance and monitoring
- Using data-driven insights to target biosecurity efforts
- How risk maps inform surveillance protocols and why strategic monitoring matters
National diagnostic capabilities
- New diagnostic protocols being developed for rapid, accurate pest identification
Preparedness, traceback and response
- How farm visitor records support rapid tracing during pest incursions
- Practical tools to streamline your farm biosecurity
Who Should Attend?
Vegetable growers • Government biosecurity regulators • Agronomists • Researchers • Diagnosticians • Crop pest monitoring and surveillance professionals
Presenters:
- Guy Davidson, Onside
- Dr James Camac, Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis
- Dr Paul Campbell, Queensland Department of Primary Industries
- Dr. Stephen Quarrell, Plant Health Australia
- Dr. Tim Hurst, Senior Officer Plant Surveillance Design and Analysis at Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria
Led by AUSVEG with Hort Innovation funding, VegWatch partners include Plant Health Australia, CEBRA, Agriculture Victoria, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and Onside.
This project (VG22004) has been funded by Hort Innovation, using the research and development levies listed below and contributions from the Australian Government.
