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Northern Australia Food Futures Conference 2021 Read more

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Australasian Bee Conference 2021 Read more

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Hort Connections 2021 Read more

Ongoing project

The Australian potato grower’s manual (PT19003)

Completed project

RD&E program for control, eradication and preparedness for vegetable leafminer (MT16004)

Fact sheet

Monitoring for improved management

Fact sheet

Know your salts to better manage potato nutrition

Fact sheet

Managing hydrophobic soils in potato production

Fact sheet

Organic soil amendments, biologicals and biostimulants

Media Release

2020 – The year everything about fresh produce consumption changed

Media Release

Cover crops – a game changer

Ongoing project

Feasibility study into opportunities for high-technology horticulture production in urban environments (HA19005)

Completed project

Phenomenom - The Good Mood Food Module (ST19041)

Completed project

Seasonal horticulture labour demand and workforce study (ST19040)

Ongoing project

Australian potato industry communication and extension project (PT20000)

Media Release

$15 billion horticulture value in 2019/20 Hort Stats Handbook shows

Media Release

Helping Aussie kids explore food and its relationship to mood

Completed project

Sampling for Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (CLso) (PT19001)

Media Release

Bringing high tech horticulture to urban areas in Australia – rooftop, underground and floating farms

Media Release

Tree genomics program sequences 300 macadamia varieties to improve productivity and profitability for growers

Completed project

Nutrition claims for The Good Mood Food educational website (ST19037)

Media Release

R&D levy investments projected to deliver $40.5 million of value over 30 years

Article

The Masterclass in Horticultural Business course is now open for 2021 intakes

Article

Taste Australia maintains presence at Asia Fruit Logistica in 2020

Media Release

New Directors, Chair and Deputy Chair for Hort Innovation

Media Release

$50 million in plant biosecurity projects prioritised and coordinated through national collaboration

Article

Serpentine Leafminer detected in Sydney

Media Release

New partnership signed between Australian agencies to strengthen plant biosecurity

Media Release

New plant pest and disease surveillance tech delivered

Media Release

What's the buzz about? Celebrating Australian pollinator week

Article

Fall armyworm update and alert

Media Release

Hort Innovation AGM – Board member nominees announced

Article

Members vote to update Hort Innovation’s Constitution

Media Release

Aussie frozen berry producer Stuart McGruddy awarded Hort Innovation Churchill Fellowship

Media Release

Fall armyworm podcasts launched to help growers

Media Release

Cross your I's and dot your bees for pollination

Minor use permit

Minor use permits for the fresh and processing potato industries

Completed project

Scanning technologies for horticulture packhouses (ST19022)

Media Release

Sterile fruit flies contribute to reduction in Queensland fruit fly population

Article

An Extraordinary General Meeting of members has been called

Media Release

Greening our cities – reducing the 'urban heat island' effect

Media Release

Record-breaking year for Australian table grape exports

Media Release

Horticulture research to boost bushfire recovery

Article

Horticulture grant on offer for young Australians

Media Release

Launch of third apple and pear orchard program

Completed project

Exploring Spongospora suppressive soils in potato production (PT16002)

Media Release

Strawberry breeding program delights tastebuds

Media Release

Getting the facts on pollination

Media Release

Living turf provides bushfire protection scientific report finds

Ongoing project

Investigating soil pH and nutrition as possible factors influencing pink rot in potatoes – a pilot study (PT19000)

Potato – Processing Fund snapshot

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