Friday, 22 April 2022
Join us for a webinar on the Nursery Industry Statistics benchmarking tool a levy-funded resource which leverages data to help you make key planning decisions within your nursery. More
Thursday, 21 April 2022
International Day of Plant Health has been declared for May 12th, 2022. This new day is the legacy of the International Year of Plant Health, marked in 2020-2021.
Plant health is responsible for ensuring sustainable plant production, biodiversity and safeguarding our healthy and resilient environment.
Further, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), plant pests and diseases cause food crop losses of up to 40 per cent, furthering the issue of world hunger and threatening rural livelihoods.
Thursday, 14 April 2022
Two Minor Use Permits (New Applications) have been approved by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) for the nursery industry within the last month. Minor Use Permit number PER91812 and PER91816 are now available as described below.
Through the ‘National Biosecurity and Sustainable Plant Production Program’ (NY20001), levy funds and additional contributions from the Australian Government were used to apply for the new Minor Use Permit (MUP).
Anthracnose is a common nursery pathogen causing leaf spots and small water-soaked circular lesions on leaves, stems or fruit. With time, spots enlarge and become tan to dark brown or black in colour. Sometimes leaf spots may be surrounded by a bright yellow halo. Lesions may become sunken and produce concentric bands of tiny black fruiting bodies on the dead tissue in the centre of spots. Salmon-coloured spore masses may exude from fruiting bodies under conditions of high humidity. Symptoms caused by anthracnose tend to be very similar to those caused by a range of other symptoms.
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
The Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook 2020/21 has been released.
The Handbook outlines key statistics and insights on 75 horticultural products including nursery.
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Rapid and safe access to new plant genetic stocks is crucial for the greenlife industry to remain profitable, sustainable, and internationally competitive.
To reduce the time greenlife spends in quarantine, a new, quicker process is being developed which would give industry access to new genetic stocks sooner.
