All posts tagged "Farm Biosecurity"

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  News and Views

  Preparing Australia to manage fall armyworm

  The Australian Government has provided a grant of $600,000 to Plant Health Australia (PHA) to fill some of the R&D gaps for...

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  Farm Management

  Results of the 2020 producer survey are in

  More Australian producers than ever before have implemented biosecurity practices to protect their properties from diseases, pests and weeds.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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...