All posts tagged "biosecurity"

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  Farm Management

  Biosecurity basics: Make your own footbath

  Dirty boots can pose a very real risk to your property. People can unintentionally carry pest or disease-causing organisms on unwashed footwear,...

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  Livestock

  Pimelea warning to livestock producers ahead of spring

  Livestock producers in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia are being warned to be alert to the potential emergence of pimelea...

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  Farm Management

  Beekeepers urged to adopt Biosecurity Code of Practice

  Beekeepers nationally, commercial and hobby, are being urged to adopt the Australian Honey Bee Industry Biosecurity Code of Practice to keep their...

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  Broadacre

  Do you suspect crop disease? Send us your samples

  Agriculture Victoria is calling on agronomists to send in diseased plant samples for diagnostics as part of new initiative targeting pulse diseases.

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  News and Views

  Spotlight on domestic boating biosecurity

  ABARES has released the Recreational boat operators’ self-management of biofouling in Australia report, providing an overview of current biofouling practices by boat...

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  News and Views

  Feral cats declared as a pest animal in Victoria

  The Victorian Government is acting to protect Victoria’s precious biodiversity and threatened wildlife by declaring the feral cat as an established pest...

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  Farm Management

  Screening service to test for insecticide resistance in crop pests

  Grain growers are being asked whether they have noticed a chemical control failure or suspect insecticide resistance in redlegged earth mite (RLEM)...

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  Farm Management

  Spot and stop barley blotch

  Barley crops in some high and medium rainfall areas of Western Australia may be exposed to damaging levels of spot form of...

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  Farm Management

  The importance of pest surveillance

  Have you ever wondered how we know that Australia doesn’t have certain pests and diseases that wreak havoc on crop production overseas?

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  Farm Management

  The big picture of how Australia protects itself from plant pests and diseases

  The latest go-to guide to how Australia protects itself against exotic plant pests and diseases reveals the tremendous effort being made across...