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Optimising plant nutrition
With the extortionate price of fertiliser this season, growers are trying to use it as efficiently as possible. Plant nutrition must be tailored to each vegetable crop and growing conditions to ensure plants are healthy, productive and profitable.
Farm Hygiene
Farm hygiene is the first step to helping growers protect their own business and the wider horticulture industry, while minimising production losses and unnecessary costs associated with pest outbreaks.
Hort Innovation reports released
Hort Innovation has released its 2020/21 Company Annual report and each horticulture industry’s 2020/21 Fund reports, which showcase how Hort Innovation has worked to support the horticulture sector throughout the last year.
Meet the Grower: Frank Nobile
If you have eaten a snow or sugar snap pea in recent months, there’s a high probability that it was grown in the fertile soils of South Gippsland. With its reliable rainfall, South Gippsland is home to a number of snow and sugar snap pea growers, who over the six warmer months of the year, supply almost all of Australia’s markets.