All posts tagged "Plant Health Australia"

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  Farm Management

  Don’t risk crop failure – plan your surveillance activities

  As this year’s winter crop reaches a critical growth stage, it’s time to do rigorous and regular surveillance to protect your growing...

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  Farm Management

  Cleaning and disinfecting greenhouses between crops

  The protected cropping industry in Australia is growing, with more and more producers using greenhouses to grow vegetables and flowers.

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  Must See

  Preparing Australia to manage fall armyworm

  The Australian Government has provided a grant of $600,000 to Plant Health Australia (PHA) to fill some of the R&D gaps for...

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  Farm Management

  Results of the 2020 producer survey are in

  More Australian producers than ever before have implemented biosecurity practices to protect their properties from diseases, pests and weeds.

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  News and Views

  Free biosecurity course for Aussie beekeepers

  The Biosecurity for Beekeepers online course is now free for all Australian beekeepers, increasing the accessibility of training which will help protect...

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  Whos Who

  Plant Health Australia welcomes new CEO Sarah Corcoran

  Sarah Corcoran has commenced as CEO of Plant Health Australia (PHA), the national coordinator of the government-industry partnership on plant biosecurity.

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  News and Views

  New tools to help your seasonal workers be biosecurity aware

  Transient workers are a crucial part of the workforce for many farm businesses, but bringing workers onto your farm – from overseas...

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  Farm Management

  Have you spotted the parallels?

  Epidemic, incursion, outbreak: call it what you like, you should take note of what’s happening in Australia in response to COVID-19, because...

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  News and Views

  It’s that time again: Farm Biosecurity Producer Survey

  Every couple of years the Farm Biosecurity Program, run by Plant Health Australia and Animal Health Australia, conducts a national phone survey...

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  Farm Management

  Fall armyworm found in Oz

  The exotic pest fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has been detected in Australia, on islands in the Torres Strait, Bamaga in Cape York,...