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Lettuce crop protection products: A guide to potential impacts on beneficials
This poster is a quick reference guide designed to help you choose effective crop protection products which minimise the impact on beneficials and the environment. … Read more
Less Energy More Profit article
Infotech Research conducted a series of 22 energy audits of levy paying vegetable growers in 2014, as part of a project with Horticulture Innovation Australia … Read more
Integrating sustainable soil health practices into a commercial vegetable farming operation
Integrating sustainable soil health practices into commercial vegetable production is required to reverse declines in soil health and maintain or improve the productivity and profitability … Read more
Integrated pest management in greenhouses
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a package of interchangeable agricultural practices that can be used to manage pests in the crop. IPM is based on … Read more
Integrated disease management in greenhouses
Integrated disease management is the practice of using a range of measures to prevent and manage diseases in crops. The term integrated pest management (IPM) … Read more
Innovative Approaches To Adding Value To Vegetable Waste – Phase II
This project highlights the potential exists to improve the efficiency and minimise the environmental impact of vegetable processing.
Improved Irrigation Management In Potatoes And Onions
This project improved irrigation management in potatoes and onions, augmenting results from previous projects in other vegetables. The project had two components: firstly, it conducted … Read more
Implementation Of National Environmental Strategy For The Vegetable Industry – Extension To November 2009
A total review of the EnviroVeg program was undertaken as a result of the EnviroVeg manual and checklists being rewritten, with the new manual taking … Read more
Implementation of national environmental strategy for the vegetable industry – 6 month bridging project
In May 2009, the EnviroVeg Program completed its current phase and funding was required to support the program through the subsequent six months which time … Read more
Hydroponic Farmers Federation NZ Greenhouse study tour
The purpose of this study tour was to observe how NZ’s greenhouse growers have taken Dutch techniques and technologies and implemented them in the southern … Read more
Vegetable Production & Water Pollution On The Western Australian Coastal Plain
Amending pale sandy souls with 120t red mud/ha (freshly applied) increased the amount of fertiliser P held in the top 15 cm of soil, although … Read more
Field and landscape management to support beneficial arthropods for IPM on vegetable farms
This project, which ran from 2017 to 2020, helped vegetable growers to develop practical approaches for pest control, building on previous research from Australia and … Read more