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Hygiene and Biosecurity include:
- timely harvest of all fruit – including commercial crops, garden hosts and other fruiting hosts in/on/around the property – even check the neighbours and the risks bordering the property e.g. roadsides.
- satisfactory disposal of all collected waste fruit that ensures no larval survival (if by chance QFF are present). Including packhouse waste. e.g. cold storage (2 weeks is the minimum for apples), freezing, boiling, solarising, deep burial below 1m with compacted soil, investigate maceration and desiccation options, stock feed.
- removal or destruction of fallen fruit and fruit left after the main harvest (e.g. destroy normal uninfested fruit in the paddock with sweepers, mulchers and rollers etc)
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CALLS to strengthen Tasmania’s biosecurity borders are growing, with supermarket giants in the island state removing some fresh produce from shelves as fears of a major fruit-fly incursion escalate.
Tasmania’s biosecurity authority has issued a statewide recall of all produce that passed through a fumigation facility in Victoria after fruit-fly larvae was found in nectarines at a Devonport grocery store. Read more of this Article from The Mercury.
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YARRA Valley farmers are encouraging locals to support them as they face a rapidly changing agricultural landscape.
And a new initiative is allowing people to get out and taste the best of what the valley has the offer.YARRA Valley farmers are encouraging locals to support them as they face a rapidly changing agricultural landscape.
And a new initiative is allowing people to get out and taste the best of what the valley has the offer.
Water, climate, land values and labour costs are some of the challenges confronting farmers across the region who are turning to technology and alternative business streams to stay ahead of the curve.
Fourth-generation cherry grower Steve Chapman and his brother Mark own Chappies in Silvan and are on the newly formed Yarra Valley U-Pick Trail, offering people the chance to fill up buckets and baskets with fresh local produce.
Read more of this Herald Sun article.
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