Cabbage growers from the Northern Adelaide Plains have teamed up with TriCal Australia and the South Australian Research and Development Institute to conduct soil fumigation trials that focus on suppression of beet cyst nematode.

Located in Virginia, South Australia, Frank and Rocco Musolino’s farms were surveyed in November 2019 after growers – through AUSVEG SA – approached TriCal Australia and the South Australian Research and Development Institute’s (SARDI) nematology group, headed by Michael Rettke.

Click here to read about the results from the preliminary survey and trial, which were conducted in late 2019 and throughout 2020.