| Rug up! Winter series of Future Orchards® walks starts next week! |
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Join us as Future Orchards® Walks make their in-orchard return, kicking off in Stanthorpe on Monday 13 June.
Hosted across eight orchards around Australia, growers will join international pome fruit experts Willie Kotze – Dutoit Agri, Peter Allderman –TopFruit and Dr Nigel Cook – Phrophyta, APAL Technical Manager, Rose Daniel, and AgFirst advisors, Craig Hornblow and Ross Wilson, to recap on the season just past and discuss geo-specific strategies for achieving crop production targets and orchard goals.
And for the first time, we're hosting a special pear-focused walk in the Goulburn Valley to look in-depth at pruning, nutrition, packouts and the profitability of producing first-class pears.
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| $100,000 tree grant program for bee friendly farmers |
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A new Bee Friendly Farming tree grant program is providing grants of up to $10,000 for growers and land managers to plant pollinator friendly trees.
The aim is to plant over 100,000 trees to create better habitation and bee breeding conditions to increase pollination and facilitate better pome production.
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| Apple and pear levy funded program to lift exports by 2024 |
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| Predictions of domestic apple and pear market saturation remain, despite lower than anticipated Class 1 Pink Lady packouts this season. Here, APAL Head of Trade, Jenny Van de Meeberg, provides an update on the program underway to improve market access and increase the percentage of marketable production exported by 2024. |
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| Five areas for achieving orchard excellence |
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| Before we meet for Future Orchards® Walks (June 13–24), review AgFirst's Winter 2020 perspective on the five key areas essential for achieving orchard excellence now and into the future: Quality, Climate, Trees, Labour and Technology. |
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| Retailers must be good corporate citizens: Tristan Kitchener |
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| You saw him at APAL Industry Forum, now hear more from Tristan Kitchener on the top priorities for UK retailers and the supply chain, including streamlining packhouses, pressure on retailers to be "good corporate citizens", reducing cost and waste, and the need for industry to work together and to work smarter. |
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| Applications open for exports of Tasmanian apples and pears to protocol markets |
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| Applications for export accreditation of Tasmanian apples to Thailand, China, Japan and Taiwan, and pears to Thailand in 2022-23 must be lodged by Friday 15 July. |
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| Inform pre-farm gate waste management solutions |
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| Help empower industry to inform better access options for improved waste recovery and management by completing this confidential survey to support the Pre-Farm Gate Waste Program supported by AgriFutures and RMCG. For further information contact Jacqui Longford at RMCG. |
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Goulburn Valley's Georgopoulos family expand plantings of their exclusive red pear variety, Red Sienna Pride
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| Labour woes continue as data shows just 15,000 backpackers currently employed in Australia, down from 130,000 pre-pandemic |
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| Rising stars in agriculture and agtech encouraged to apply for AgriFutures 'Future Young Leaders' mentoring program |
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| Multi-scale remote sensing data-driven apple crop water use mapping |
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| NZ: Climate change impacts on apple factsheet |
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| Bravo™ for increase in apple exports |
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| For a complete list of industry events and diary dates visit the APAL website. |
| June 13–24 |
| Future Orchard Walks - Winter Series |
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| Hosted by local orchards across Australia, join AgFirst and international pome fruit experts to explore technical advances that will deliver orchard goals. |
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| June 21 |
| Focus on Finance Workshop |
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Growcom invites Qld growers to attend the Focus on Finance regional workshop series being delivered under the Farm Business Resilience Program.
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| August 4–5 |
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| Explore filed day demonstrations and presentations on the 2022 Conference theme: "Beyond 2021 - Orchard and Packhouse Technology". |
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| August 3–5 |
| Queensland Agworkforce Summit |
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| Held virtually, learn about innovative strategies that have worked in attracting, retaining and skilling a workforce. |
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| September 1–2 |
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**New Dates Announced**
Featuring international guests, Agtech entrepreneurs and respected field researchers, the much-anticipated APAL R&D day will take place in Melbourne, followed by an orchard and packhouse tour in Southern Vic. |
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| November 2–4 |
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| Covering the entire fresh produce industry value chain and its service support companies, as well as the latest, innovative products and ideas. |
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