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SUMMARY:Webinar: VegWatch Showcase: Building a Biosecure Future for the Australian vegetable industry
DESCRIPTION:Australia’s vegetable industry is strengthening its defenses against emerging biosecurity threats \nVegWatch 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. \nWe 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. \nYou will hear about:  \nIndustry Biosecurity Planning and Preparedness  \n\nPriority pests for Australian vegetables and how they were identified\n\nRisk mapping\, surveillance and monitoring  \n\nUsing data-driven insights to target biosecurity efforts\nHow risk maps inform surveillance protocols and why strategic monitoring matters\n\nNational diagnostic capabilities \n\nNew diagnostic protocols being developed for rapid\, accurate pest identification\n\nPreparedness\, traceback and response \n\nHow farm visitor records support rapid tracing during pest incursions\nPractical tools to streamline your farm biosecurity\n\nWho Should Attend? \nVegetable growers  • Government biosecurity regulators • Agronomists • Researchers • Diagnosticians • Crop pest monitoring and surveillance professionals \n  \nPresenters: \n\nGuy Davidson\, Onside\nDr James Camac\, Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis\nDr Paul Campbell\, Queensland Department of Primary Industries\nDr. Stephen Quarrell\, Plant Health Australia\nDr. Tim Hurst\, Senior Officer Plant Surveillance Design and Analysis at Department of Jobs\, Precincts and Regions\, Agriculture Victoria\n\n  \n  \nLed by AUSVEG with Hort Innovation funding\, VegWatch partners include Plant Health Australia\, CEBRA\, Agriculture Victoria\, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries\, and Onside. \nThis project (VG22004) has been funded by Hort Innovation\, using the research and development levies listed below and contributions from the Australian Government.
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