Month: May 2015

With backpackers being a mainstay of the banana industry workforce, Innisfail hostel manager Nick Pervan has taken immediate action to make sure farm workers know biosecurity is everyone’s job. Nick, from the Backpackers Shack, wrote his own notice to farm workers to ensure they understood…

Tissue culture provides  clean planting material but growers need to plan well ahead if they want plants, including a TR4-tolerant variety. Sharon Hamill reports The incursion of Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4), also known as Fusarium wilt, in North Queensland means growers need to…