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Published - 25 May 2021
By David Williams (Agriculture Victoria)

IPDM Manual for Apples and Pears

Summary:
The Integrated Pest Disease and Weed Management manual for Australian Apple and Pears – is a revised 2nd edition of the IPM manual well known to many …
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IPDM Manual, Useful Tools

Published - 20 September 2021
By Marcel Veens (Marcel Veens Horticulture Adviser Pty Ltd)

Do insecticides make mealybugs worse?

Control of mealybugs is notoriously difficult because their waxy secretions reduce penetration by insecticides. In apples and pears, mealybugs also hide in the calyx end …
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Beneficials, Pests

Published - 1 September 2021
By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) and Elizabeth Mace (GV Crop Protection)

Prepare hives and help hoverflies

If we get a wet spring we may find the bees struggle to get active this year. It’s time to have hives prepared and help …
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Published - 26 August 2021
By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria)

Start planning for mealybug

Are you prepared for mealybug this season? Has your control strategy been working, or are there important gaps to address? When planning your next steps …
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Published - 17 June 2021
By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria)

Establishing native vegetation in inter-rows

Establishing native vegetation in orchard inter-rows to create habitat for beneficials is not an easy undertaking.
As part of a PIPS 3 research project, (AP19002 Stengthening …
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Published - 10 April 2021
By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) and Kevin Dodds (NSW DPI)

Post harvest Scab control

Sweeping and mulching leaves, and the application of foliar Nitrogen, hastens leaf decomposition and reduces the number of Scab spores that survive into the following …
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Diseases

Published - 18 March 2021
By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria)

Earwig control of WAA

Orchardist Ian Cathels participated in an APAL Future Orchard monitoring trial looking at earwig control of woolly apple aphid (WAA).
“We observed earwigs numbers were very …
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Beneficials

Published - 18 February 2021
By Raelene Kwong (Agriculture Victoria)

Soil testing to help measure native vegetation success

Agriculture Victoria researchers in the IPDM Cultural and Biological control project are collecting soil samples from trial plots at the Tatura Smart Farm in Victoria …
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Beneficials, Home

Published - 11 February 2021
By Dan Papacek (Bugs for Bugs)

Fruit fly management

A whole ‘system’ approach is required for fruit fly management. By this we mean:

Protein bait sprays
Monitoring
Male annihilation
Sanitation

The Manage Queensland Fruit fly brochure from Hort Innovation …
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Published - 2 February 2021
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PIPS3: Strengthening Cultural and Biological Management of Pests and Diseases

Hort Innovation has kicked off the third Apple and Pear industry Productivity, Irrigation, Pests and Soils (PIPS3) program. The program covers apple and pear orchards …
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Published - 28 January 2021
By Russell Fox (I.K. Caldwell) and Enver Sabri (I.K.Caldwell)

Summer Spot – a few cases being seen in Vic

A few cases of Summer Spot are being seen in the Goulburn Valley at the moment. Summer Spot is a secondary infection of Black Spot …
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Diseases, Vic

Published - 21 January 2021
By Rose Daniels (APAL)

Latest regulatory changes for ag chemicals

Agricultural chemicals relied on by orchardists continue to be reviewed, resulting in changes to regulations domestically, and internationally. The cancellation or modification of use of …
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