Category: News & Media
Hitting the right spot with leaf disease management
Retired Yellow Sigatoka Liaison Officer Louis Lardi. Integrated management of yellow Sigatoka and other diseases in north Queensland (BA15003) By Dr Rosie Godwin, R&D Manager, Australian Banana Growers’ Council Yellow Sigatoka and leaf speckle, commonly referred to as “leaf spot”, are established and serious foliar diseases of…
Wanted, dead or alive – ground covers
Pinto peanuts used as a living ground cover established on a commercial banana plantation amongst Lady Finger bananas. Naturalised low growing grasses allowed to grow from the interrow into the banana row to provide a living ground cover. Dirty water leaving bananas with no ground…
Goldfinger mutagenesis – elite tasting selections to be propagated for detailed evaluations
Two of the better tasting selections being multiplied. By Katie Ferro, Jeff Daniells, Massimo Bianco and Sharon Hamill, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries The results are in and the most promising candidates have been selected for stage two of the Goldfinger Mutagenesis studies. From the…
Oma batters Northern NSW farm
By Amy Spear Colin Singh’s love of bananas is well known. He’s the president of the Tweed BGA, always happy to show people around his farm, and keen to promote the industry in any way he can. And it’s probably that love that will keep him going, despite being hit…
Tweed grower takes on trial site
The trial site is a tour option at the 2019 Australian Banana Industry Congress.Zac McKeever, who grows bananas in the Tweed area, is now working at the Duranbah trial site. By Matt Weinert and Amy Spear A local banana grower with a scientific background has taken…
David departs after decades of service
Industry stalwart David Peasley retired in December 2018. Getting among the fruits of his labour in 2013.David judging bananas at the EKKA in 2008. Amy Spear caught up with David Peasley in his final weeks at the Duranbah trial site in Northern New South Wales. After…