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Managing Pesticide Resistance
A fact sheet outlining some basic principles growers can follow to avoid pesticide resistance
Quality Wash Water For Carrots And Other Vegetables: Insurance For Clean Food And Minimising Environmental Impact
This project is responsible for the development of guidelines designed to assist growers in creating effective waste water treatment systems which remove excess organic matter, … Read more
Pollination Aware
This project was undertaken to consolidate the current knowledge of best-practice management of pollination under Australian conditions; provide a basis for programs to raise awareness … Read more
Phosphate, Nitrogen And Irrigation Management In Potatoes
This project investigates the irrigation and fertiliser management of table potatoes in WA over a three-year period. It investigates two main issues – the management … Read more
Organic vegetable production – managing pests and diseases
This 8-page fact sheet describes the effective ways of managing pests (including weeds) and diseases in organic vegetable production systems. It is an excellent source … Read more
Optimising water and nutrient use on vegetable farms
The key to achieving efficient irrigation and fertiliser use is good irrigation design, and the correct scheduling of irrigation and fertiliser. The major project objective … Read more
On-farm power generation for vegetable growers
Research into on farm power generation has produced details of the options, and explored feasibility of adoption of such systems. Growers can use this to … Read more
Nitrogen Dynamics In Commercial Seed Potato Crops And Its Effect On Seed Yield, Quality, Storage And Subsequent Commercial Crop Performance
This report has allowed for seed potato growers to gain increase access to better guidelines on site-specific Nitrogen monitoring using ‘real time’ monitoring tools.
National greenhouse waste-water recycling project
The national greenhouse waste-water recirculation project was designed to deliver necessary skills to greenhouse vegetable growers in converting their free-drainage (open) systems to full recycling … Read more
More Economically And Environmentally Responsible Use Of Phosphorus Fertiliser In Potato Cropping On Krasnozem Soils In Australia
The project examines the potential reduction in Phosphorus applications on potatoe ferrosols in order to decrease the costs along with reductions in phosphorus and cadmium … Read more
Maximising returns from water in the Australian vegetable industry
This is a series of reports on Australian vegetable industry water use at state and national levels, and has been funded by Horticulture Australia Ltd … Read more
Revegetation by design guidebook
This guidebook is a product of the first phase of the “Revegetation by Design” program conducted from February 2003 till November 2006. This program aims … Read more