Transient workers are a crucial part of the workforce for many farm businesses, but bringing workers onto your farm – from overseas...
Bushfires affected thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Australia this summer, burning homes, crops, standing and stored animal feed supplies, fences,...
Epidemic, incursion, outbreak: call it what you like, you should take note of what’s happening in Australia in response to COVID-19, because...
Every couple of years the Farm Biosecurity Program, run by Plant Health Australia and Animal Health Australia, conducts a national phone survey...
The exotic pest fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has been detected in Australia, on islands in the Torres Strait, Bamaga in Cape York,...
The fly called spotted wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii) is emerging as a global plant pest of significance. It attacks a range...
For more than a decade, a small group of farmers have been growing coffee bushes in Far North Queensland and northern New...
Australia will be making the most of the first International Year of Plant Health in 2020 by promoting how much Australians value...
Area-wide management (AWM) is a proven way of managing pests, including Queensland fruit fly, the single most important pest of fruits and...
The Honey Bee Health Survey of 2018 was designed to provide a snapshot of bee health in the Australian honey bee industry.