All posts tagged "biosecurity"

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  Farm Management

  Ascochyta confirmed in northern chickpea crop

  Industry calls for Queensland and New South Wales chickpea growers to remain on high alert for costly disease issues this season have...

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  Farm Management

  $20m to control wild dogs, rabbits and carp curse

  Victorian farmers have praised a five-year $20 million Government commitment to continue co-ordinating Australia’s battle to control the rabbit, carp, wild dog,...

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  Farm Management

  Strict on-farm biosecurity required for Russian wheat aphid surveillance

  Western Australian grain growers, consultants and agronomists surveying crops for signs of Russian wheat aphid, which was detected in South Australia and...

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  Farm Management

  Diseases, pests and weeds

  I spy with my little eye, something beginning with diseases, pests and weeds.

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  Farm Management

  Tassie strawberry growers unite to stamp out pests

  In 2013, Tasmanian strawberry growers raised the alarm to their Research and Development Corporation after several tonnes of fruit was damaged by...

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  884

  Small Farms

  Global threat to agriculture from invasive species

  New CSIRO research into the global impacts of invasive species has found that sub-Saharan African countries are most at risk, while China...

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  News and Views

  Communities winning war against dogs

  Collaboration within communities and the targeted use of new and old control methods is helping land managers win the war against wild...

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  619

  Farm Management

  Satellite tracking to be deployed for flying fox management

  The Queensland Government has announced a $2.7 million investment over three years to help local councils monitor little-red flying fox movements and...

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  Farm Management

  Victoria and South Australia tackle fruit fly head on

  Fruit growers have welcomed a cooperative agreement to fund the establishment of a Sterile Insect Technology program to help eradicate fruit flies...

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  Farm Management

  Continued vigilance urged on yellow spot disease

  Almost half the yellow spot disease samples received in a national survey in 2015 were collected from wheat varieties which were rated...