All posts tagged "Plant Health Australia"

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  Next generation of fruit fly handbook and website launched

  The business of sorting and identifying the thousands of tephritid ‘true’ fruit flies affecting a wide variety of crops grown in Australia...

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  Peeling back the layers of biosecurity for onion growers

  For the first time, onion growers across Australia have a manual dedicated to their biosecurity needs.

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  Whos Who

  Banana growers recognised in biosecurity awards

  The 2018 winners of the inaugural Farm Biosecurity Producer of The Year Award, part of the Australian Biosecurity Awards, are Mackay Farming...

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  Farm Management

  Top 10 tips to improve biosecurity at harvest time

  Harvest is usually the season when extra activity on your property can create additional biosecurity risks for your farm.

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  Damn these flies!

  Growers of fruit and vegetables that can be hosts of fruit fly – in particular Mediterranean and Queensland fruit fly – are...

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  It’s stink bug season again

  In recent years between September and April, the Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has declared ‘stink bug season’ and...

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  New Directors and Chairman for Plant Health Australia

  Plant Health Australia (PHA), the not-for-profit coordinator of the plant biosecurity industry and government partnership in Australia, has three new non-executive Directors...

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  Fast Facts

  The enemy within: containing regional plant pests

  Biosecurity officers in South Australia recently set up a random road block near Blanchetown, to stop and inspect vehicles for fruit and...

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  Eradication of tomato potato psyllid not feasible

  The Tomato Potato Psyllid National Management Group has advised that it is not technically feasible to eradicate the tiny sap sucking pest...

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  Who is the next Farm Biosecurity Producer of the Year?

  If you know an Aussie farmer who takes biosecurity seriously and goes the extra length to avoid diseases, pests and weeds coming...