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Day: 6 September 2018

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6 September 2018

Panama TR4 Ready campaign under way

To ensure everyone plays their part in helping to minimise the spread of Panama disease tropical race 4 (Panama TR4), Biosecurity Queensland has been implementing a number of key projects to raise awareness with growers and the wider community about what they can do to be Panama TR4 ready. By Deanna Belbin, BQ…
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6 September 2018

Feel the need for speed

Congratulations to Matt Abbott and Joshua Rolfe who have claimed a place among the world’s fastest outrigger canoe paddlers. The North Queenslanders, both from well-known banana growing families, competed at the Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti last month. Beating out a field of about 50 talented paddlers for a…
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6 September 2018

Wet Tropics MIP trial work

Soil and topographic work is underway at sites for bioreactors (nitrogen traps) and constructed wetlands on farms in the Cassowary Coast region. Contractors are undertaking topographical surveys and soil samples at five sites in the Johnstone and Tully catchments to help guide the design and construction stages of systems repair…
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6 September 2018

Mechanical banana harvester way of future inventor says

A former Far North Queensland banana farmer believes a mechanical banana harvester he developed 20 years ago will eventually become the way of the future. With horticultural farming practices increasingly moving towards automation and robotics, Tom Johnston maintains his robotic harvester reduces fruit damage, is more cost and labour efficient and…
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6 September 2018

Can economics help banana farming?

Banana growers in the Wet Tropics can increase their profitability and sustainability by adopting the banana industry’s suite of best management practices (BMP). That was the message from Department of Agriculture and Fisheries’ (DAF) economists to growers at a workshop in Innisfail last month. The DAF economists have just…
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6 September 2018

Slash your costs with home-grown invention

If time and money are two things you value, a Wet Tropics invention may be right up your alley – or interrow, in this case. David Rolfe, a Mena Creek grower and 2017 Reef Award finalist, designed his own wick wiper four years ago. Already used by a…
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6 September 2018

Spreading the benefits

Efficiency on a North Queensland banana farm has spiked, thanks to the recent introduction of a locally-built spreader. Mick Horsford farms at Mena Creek and Pin Gin Hill, along with his brother Kris and father Lance. His grandfather began growing bananas in the area more than five decades ago,…
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