Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Two new Minor Use Permit (MUP) applications have been approved by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) for the nursery industry.
Applications for these Minor Use Permits have been made through the levy-funded ‘National Biosecurity and Sustainable Plant Production Program’ (NY20001). The below MUPs PER90454 and PER90451 are now available. More
Monday, 1 November 2021
Hort Innovation has released its Annual Fund Report for the nursery industry. The annual report maps out where key levy funds have been invested in 2020/21 and provides a rundown of new, ongoing, and completed research and development and marketing projects. More
Thursday, 28 October 2021
Greener Spaces Better Places has evolved, bringing levy-funded marketing activities under the one Masterbrand.
The strategic pivot of Greener Spaces Better Places (GSBP) merges both the consumer and government messaging, providing opportunities for growers to extend their customer base and creating a unified movement that brings the power of plants into the life of every Australian. Private landowners represent the greatest opportunity for increased greenspace, so merging the private and public Greenlife opportunity under GSBP just makes sense. More
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The levy funded ‘Digital remote monitoring to improve horticulture’s environmental performance’ (ST19024) project is developing tools to help Australian horticultural businesses improve nutrient, water and labour efficiency.
Funded by Hort Innovation through the National Landcare Program, the project aims to develop tools created by Applied Horticultural Research and Hitachi Vantara to help Australian horticultural businesses reduce barriers to Best Management Practice (BMP) adoption through an innovative pilot production nursery project assessing appropriate digital tools. More
Many groups of insect pests can be easily managed with relatively simple cultural strategies combined with insecticides, and through the increasing availability of low-risk IPM-friendly insecticides which can be used to preserve predators and parasitoids and manage insect pests.
But what do you do when dealing with insect pests with no registered insecticides, no commercially available biological control agents, and have limited information available on control actions? More
Scale insects are a diverse group of insects that includes armoured scales, soft scales, mealybugs, felt scales and other groups. There are many species that damage nursery stock; some occur on a large number of plant species while others are more specific. More
