Bay of Plenty Young Grower of the Year Competition 2023
July 25, 2023
Congratulations to Sydney Hines for winning the 2023 BOP Young Grower Competition!
Congratulations to Sydney Hines for winning the 2023 BOP Young Grower Competition!
Hei Whanake has launched on social media with it’s brand new logo.
Did you see us at Fieldays? Fruition teamed up with GoHort for another year at the Opportunity Grows Here Careers Hub.
Our MFAT funded programme delivering education programmes to the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers from the Pacific has been extended for another year.
Check out our Semester TWO 2022 newsletter for Lincoln Diploma HERE
Has there ever been a time when the apple industry has been planting new orchards on so many different growing systems? Don’t think so. The creative energy and diversity are great. It does beg a question – is there one system that’s better than the rest? Or with the right management, can any of them excel?
Agriculture Victoria have scientifically validated Green Atlas Cartographer for mapping of flowers, fruit, canopy geometry, light interception and yield estimation in apples. Lead author Alessio Scalisi (pictured) concluded that “Cartographer provided accurate predictions of several important crop parameters, which “can be beneficial both for growers and scientists to collect data for multiple crop properties at high spatial resolution and replace labour-intensive operations.”
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Check out our Semester One 2022 newsletter for Lincoln Diploma HERE
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The Covid induced labour shortage looks set to cost the apple industry in the order of $100M this harvest season.
Media stories tend to give the impression to the ‘man in the street’ that the apple crop can be or soon will be picked by robots.
Check out our Semester One 2021 newsletter for Lincoln Diploma HERE