Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Tuesday, 4 September 2018, 10.00am
A fresh round of 200 pear sampling sessions are underway at Coles and Woolworths stores nationally aimed at further boosting consumer awareness of and purchase of pears, following the success of earlier sampling sessions over summer. A key focus of the sampling program, which is funded by the marketing levy, is educating consumers on pear […]
Fruit Growers Tasmania | Monday, 3 September 2018, 10.45am
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Hort Innovation | Monday, 3 September 2018, 10.00am
Bananas! They are nature’s palm sized gift that just keeps on giving. Now, a new Hort Innovation marketing campaign is showing consumers just how bananas are helping Australians to live their best life. Due to launch nationally across all major media platforms this weekend, the new Australian Bananas campaign focuses on healthy living, and the…
Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Monday, 3 September 2018, 8.00am
Hort Innovation’s Apple and Pear Marketing Manager Olivia Grey presented a marketing levy update for apples and pears at Hort Connections 2018 as part of APAL’s Speed Updating sessions in Brisbane in June. As part of the presentation she recapped the 2017 activity for apples and pears, shared the results of each of the campaigns […]
Hort Innovation | Thursday, 30 August 2018, 11.00am
In the 12 months since Hort Innovation launched its boldest foreign trade initiative to date, the industry has reported record export sales and greater demand for Australian grown produce. Underpinned by more than $40 million in research and development projects, and backed by world-class science and technology, the Taste Australia initiative was developed in response…
Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 12.00pm
Eating apples is good for you, ongoing research carried out by The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Edith Cowan University (ECU) has reaffirmed. The science behind how apples assist human health by improving cardiovascular health was presented at today’s Western Australian Horticulture Update by UWA senior research fellow Michael Considine and adjunct research fellow […]
Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 3.35pm
The Adama-developed fruit thinner Brevis® has been registered for Australian use by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA). Brevis is a secondary thinner for apples, containing the active constituent metamitron at 150 g/kg in a water soluble granular formulation, applied as a foliar spray. Welcoming the registration, Adama Australia said Brevis has been developed to […]
Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 3.00pm
Tasmanian grower Howard Hansen has urged growers to develop their markets and seek differentiation if they want to drive profitability. Howard told the Fruit Growers Victoria conference in Shepparton last week there “are no silver bullets” to running a profitable orchard. A profitable orchard must be able to be a leader in at least two […]
Apple and Pear Australia Limited | Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 11.00am
It is possible to get first-class management of Queensland Fruit Fly (Qfly) in areas where the pest is endemic, with a low-cost systems-based approach, according to Queensland entomologist Dan Papacek. Dan has helped run the Area Wide Management (AWM) programme in the fruit fly-endemic area of the Central Burnett in south east Queensland for more […]
Hort Innovation | Monday, 30 July 2018, 10.00am
AROUND 100 plant species have been identified as the champions of climate change under a $10 million, five-year joint research project. Funded under the Hort Innovation Green Cities Fund, and in partnership with Macquarie University, Western Sydney University (WSU) and the NSW Office of Heritage and the Environment, the Which Plant Where Project aims to…
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