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Smart Specialisation team- Ben
Ben Gebert heads up the food and fibre stream of the Gippsland Smart Specialisation Strategy (GS3), a regional development initiative executed under partnership between F&FG, the Latrobe Valley Authority (LVA) and other peak regional bodies such as Destination Gippsland and the Gippsland Climate Change Network.
Smart Specialisation team - Elena
Elena Nauta joined the GS3 team at Food & Fibre Gippsland (F&FG) in December 2020 as an Industry Placement Program participant through Federation University, and has continued working on the Sustainable Emerging Commodities (Seaweed and Insect Farming) stream of GS3 as a Graduate Project Officer upon the completion of her placement in July 2021 and Bachelor of Food and Nutritional Science in December 2021.
Masterclass in Horticultural Business
Applications for the 2022 Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness - Masterclass in Horticultural Business are now open.
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.