Australia
The 2021-2031 National Plant Biosecurity Strategy (NPBS) was released in mid-April by Plant Health Australia (PHA), providing a framework to strengthen Australia’s plant biosecurity system over the next decade. The second-generation…
Strategic Investment Plan (SIP) 2017-2021 performance reports for each levy-paying industry have been developed and are available on the Hort Innovation website. The reports review the performance of levy investments…
Key decision-makers from the horticulture, technology, transport and retail sectors gathered in Sydney recently to discuss the levers that need to be pulled for the horticulture industry to be more…
Soil scientist John Barton is well known to many olive growers through his dynamic presentations at the AOA’s National Conference and Healthy Soils Field Days. More recently, the soil and…
The Farm Biosecurity Program, run by Plant Health Australia and Animal Health Australia, is once again supporting a scholarship for a primary producer to study a topic relevant to on-farm…
A new Hort Innovation-funded pilot program is providing a tracking service to allow various horticultural categories to better understand consumer usage and attitudes and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. The…
The highly-acclaimed and comprehensive AOA Olive Oil Processing Workshop is returning as a face-to-face event this year, following two successful (COVID-induced) online programs in 2020 and 2021. The program will…
Hort Innovation has announced the appointment of Brett Fifield as the new Chief Executive Officer, replacing Matt Brand. Brett will join Hort Innovation on April 26, moving from his current…