Grove Innovation
The following articles have appeared in the Grove Innovation e-newsletter which is prepared by the Australian Olive Association and distributed monthly via email. Sign up to receive a copy direct to your inbox here.
AgriFutures Australia recently launched a series of data reports as part of its Pre-Farm Gate Waste Program. The reports provide baseline data on pre-farm gate waste in Australia to better…
We hope you’ve got 26-27 October marked down in your diary – and if not, get that marker pen out and do it now! That’s when the olive industry heads…
Australian biosecurity has received another boost after the nation’s seven plant Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry renewed a partnership to tackle…
Australian olive growers are encouraged to have their say about the outlook for horticulture and the impact of investment of their levies by participating in Hort Innovation’s annual Grower and…
Olive lace bug remains an important pest for the Australian industry and has recently been a major problem for many locations in NSW (particularly the Hunter Valley) and southern Western…
The Hort Innovation data team is hosting two webinars in August that will reveal the latest consumer insights for vegetables, and fruit, dried fruit and nuts. The information has been…
The next in the AOA’s continuing series of extension events has been scheduled, with the program building on the previous successful round of national Health Soils Field Days. Being held…
Ongoing quality improvement is one of the aims of the industry’s Strategic Investment Plan and R&D priorities, and the Australian International Olive Awards (AIOA) is one of the industry’s major…
Training fruit pickers using virtual reality equipment, employing robots to move fruit containers and wearing exoskeletons to support physical labour are all possibilities being considered by Australian berry growers to…
The AOA’s National Olive Industry Conference & Trade Exhibition heads back to Canberra this year, marking a return to the national capital after a 13-year hiatus. Running across two full…