Due to a rapidly changing export market, the Australian agriculture industry faces a growing need to embrace market diversification, with farmers across the country changing their business models to leverage various growing opportunities. (more…)
Tag: crops
Call for cane exemption to new cropping land regulation
A State Government move to impose a new bureaucratic process on farmers expanding their cropping area along the Queensland coast is unnecessary and duplicates existing regulation on the sugarcane industry. (more…)
Defending against a new pest, fall armyworm
Since its detection across northern parts of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia in February 2020, fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has been quick to establish in these locations, but Plant Health Australia (PHA) has announced new resources to assist in defending crops against the pest. (more…)
Growers urged to monitor crops as exotic pest spreads rapidly through Queensland
Australian farmers are being warned about the rapid movement of a threatening new pest throughout Queensland– the Fall Armyworm (FAW). (more…)
Maximise your crop with better pollination
The latest guidelines in a series on how to improve pollination are now available for lychees and papayas, joining the earlier brochures for macadamias, avocados, blueberries and melons. (more…)
Aussie growers urged to plant swiftly and strategically as summer approaches
With a promising rainfall outlook raising grower morale ahead of the summer season, farmers are being urged to consider best practice planting techniques. (more…)