Category: Australian Bananas Magazine

Six months after the March confirmation that TR4 is present in Australia’s major banana-growing region, efforts to combat the banana plant disease are moving from the emergency phase into a longer-term managed response. As part of the transition, occurring in September, response manager Biosecurity Queensland…

Growers from about 90 North Queensland banana farms, or just over half of the region’s production area, are now using the online version of the industry’s environmental guidelines.   The banana industry’s strong take-up of the Best Management Practices Environmental Guideline (BMP) means the industry…

Stewart Lindsay, a banana scientist at South Johnstone in North Queensland, was one of the industry champions who received an Award Of Honour at this year’s Australian Banana Industry Congress. Stewart answers our ten questions. Tell us what got you interested in the banana industry…

The banana industry has produced a video to highlight the ways banana farms are improving their farms to reduce impacts on the Great Barrier Reef. By the end of the current, and final, round of co-funded Australian Government Reef Program projects, Round 8, banana growers…

Paul Debrincat share-farms with Craig and Jade Buchanan as a part of the LMB Group of farms. He manages the 85-hectare Nerada Farm for LMB on the banks of the North Johnstone River, just west of Innisfail. After the acquisition of the land parcel, Paul…

Australia’s largest banana-growing family continues to dispense world-firsts in automated fresh produce retailing with a further expansion of its vending machine concept. In just over two years, Tully’s MacKay family has grown its start-up trial of selling bananas from its especially-designed machines into a push-button…

What used to be normal, everyday farm practices can now put banana production at risk from TR4. Stewart Lindsay reports on how to make the change to safer farming. It’s one of the most significant disease threats to global banana production and it’s now in…