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The requirements being made on the productivity, comfort and safety of mobile machines in the off-highway sector are constantly increasing. Assistance systems and partially automated solutions are making it easier for the ...

Australian vegetable industry body AUSVEG has announced the appointment of Michael Coote as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective July 1, 2021. Michael Coote has been a key member of the AUSVEG ...

Kangaroo Island's seed potato industry is still recovering a year-and-a-half on from the bushfires with growers working together to overcome infrastructure shortfalls. All six of the Island's seed potato producers were hit ...

Wyma has recently installed the biggest Rotary Bin Tipper it has ever built, the company said in a news release. The Australian washing and packing line needed to handle four-ton carrot bins, requiring a modification of ...

Australia’s oldest and most iconic chip brand, Smith’s, is celebrating its 90th birthday. As the country's favorite chip brand for almost a century, Smith's has been a pantry staple and mainstay at ...

Just saying North American potato production has benefited from the efforts of Nora Olsen would be an understatement.

veg and fruit production could fall by two and 17% respectively, with farm labour shortage

Having spent the last four years forging a proud reputation as a provider of indulgent, meat-themed snacks that shout ‘Friday night’ and pair seamlessly with one’s favorite alcoholic drink. Recently, Made for ...

On average FarmLab saves farmers about 30% of their costs by cheaper sampling costs and reduced fertiliser input

Perfect spray conditions are rare and there are so many factors at play that sometimes the basics get overlooked. The three things that the spray operator can and must control are nozzle ...

BREAKING old cycles and farming in a more unpredictable way is necessary to upset the evolutionary response of weeds, according to Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative research agronomist Mike Ashworth. Research agronomist Mike ...

It’s only early days, but Tim Heysen is excited about boldly going where no potato grower has gone before. Together with growers in the south east, southern Murraylands and the Mallee regions ...

Tasmania's import risk assessment for potatoes will be updated following concerns raised by growers over an import licence approval. Primary Industries Minister Guy Barnett during budget estimates last week confirmed work on ...

ason Davenport is still a young man, but he has already accrued at least a career’s worth of experience. He grew up on a family farm in Melba, Idaho, and fully expected to return ...

COVID-19 has changed the way Australians eat and shop for the long term. Continued restrictions mean fewer shopping trips, bigger basket sizes, more local shopping, and a significant shift toward buying groceries ...

The latest in bed planting technology has arrived in Australia, enabling certified potato seed growers to produce a more uniform crop while conserving water and increasing nutrient uptake. In this article, South ...

The recent finalisation of a takeover of Thomas Foods International’s potato business and a spike in demand through the coronavirus pandemic has cemented Mitolo Group as the Australia’s largest fresh spud producer. ...

What are the key pests affecting potato production in other countries and what R&D is occurring to better manage them? This scan* of international pest and disease research identifies: Current international research on ...

AUSVEG and the EnviroVeg Program have joined a collaboration of horticulture industry groups in a new project investigating the use of remote monitoring, to support vegetable producers automate the collection of data ...

A high-tech mobile surveillance unit was delivered at the end of October as part of Hort Innovation’s multi-agricultural industry surveillance initiative – iMapPESTS. The iMapPESTS: Sentinel Surveillance for Agriculture program is researching and developing novel ...

Approval to grant a South Australian company a licence to import potatoes into Tasmania will remain unchanged following an independent review. Former federal chief plant protection officer and plant pathologist Lois Ransom handed her ...

Herbicide-resistant weeds are being cast into the spotlight, thanks to a Charles Sturt University-led national survey. Backed by the Grains Research and Development Corporation, the survey is encouraging farmers from Australian grain ...

Australia potato supplier, Pye, will invest $35 million in a new potato packing facility at Parilla, 210 kilometres east of Adelaide in South Australia’s Mallee. The Pye Group’s multi-million-dollar investment in its ...

In Europe, the heat has caused a decrease in the consumption of potatoes, but also in the regrowth of new potatoes in the field. At the moment, this is resulting in difficult ...

Declining consumption of potatoes in Australia is not enough reason to block the sale of Thomas Foods International's potato packing business to fellow South Australian-based rival Mitolo, the national competition regulator has ...