All posts tagged "Plant Health Australia"

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  Broadacre

  We need your weevils: survey to measure phosphine resistance in grain storages

  As part of a continuing, national effort to measure the resistance of insects in stored grain to phosphine, the Victoria’s Grains Biosecurity...

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  385

  Farm Management

  Coordinated biosecurity surveillance to strengthen grain industry

  The Australian grains industry is better protected from exotic pests and diseases with the recent development of a National Grain Biosecurity Surveillance...

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  332

  News and Views

  New tools to help your seasonal workers be biosecurity aware

  Transient workers are a crucial part of the workforce for many farm businesses, but bringing workers onto your farm – from overseas...

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  Farm Management

  A new perspective on biosecurity gate signs

  Bushfires affected thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Australia this summer, burning homes, crops, standing and stored animal feed supplies, fences,...

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  570

  Farm Management

  Have you spotted the parallels?

  Epidemic, incursion, outbreak: call it what you like, you should take note of what’s happening in Australia in response to COVID-19, because...

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  338

  News and Views

  It’s that time again: Farm Biosecurity Producer Survey

  Every couple of years the Farm Biosecurity Program, run by Plant Health Australia and Animal Health Australia, conducts a national phone survey...

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  387

  Farm Management

  Fall armyworm found in Oz

  The exotic pest fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has been detected in Australia, on islands in the Torres Strait, Bamaga in Cape York,...

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  509

  Small Farms

  Exotic pest profile: spotted wing drosophila

  The fly called spotted wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii) is emerging as a global plant pest of significance. It attacks a range...

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  560

  Farm Management

  Make sure your next cuppa isn’t a biosecurity risk

  For more than a decade, a small group of farmers have been growing coffee bushes in Far North Queensland and northern New...

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  News and Views

  International Year of Plant Health in 2020

  Australia will be making the most of the first International Year of Plant Health in 2020 by promoting how much Australians value...