Category: Magazine Articles

Banana Freckle on Cavendish Under the Microscope profiles the industry’s emerging and exotic diseases. This month we profile the Banana Freckle Disease.What is Banana Freckle Disease?Freckle is caused by a fungus called Phyllosticta cavendishii which affects a wide range of bananas including Cavendish. Freckle affects…

Record keeping can be an onerous and time-consuming task for growers.  Banana growers need to record fertiliser and chemical usage for food safety accreditation and under the government reef regulations.The BetterBunch app is a free, easy to use app that has been helping growers since…

GRANT EAST (NSW) JOSHUA CHAPMAN (NSW) New Trainees ANN PHILLIPS AND LACHLAN HOHNBERG SAMANTHA STRINGER (QLD) WAYNE SHOOBRIDGE (NSW)navigate_beforenavigate_next Banana Bunchy Top is the most devastating virus disease worldwide for bananas. The ABGC’s National Bunchy Top Project is working to contain the spread and minimise the…

Elaine Seager, Terrain Water quality in the Tully, Johnstone, Russell and Mulgrave freshwater rivers and estuaries continues to be in ‘good’ overall condition, according to the latest Wet Tropics Report Card (July 2018-June 2019). The grades are an average across the entire year and are an…

Following ABGC’s submission to the inquiry into the impact of feral deer, pigs and goats in Australia, ABGC Deputy Chair, Leon Collins, was invited to speak at Parliament House on Tuesday 21 July. Due to COVID restrictions, Leon addressed the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee…

The third generation of Mackay banana growers from left – Barrie, Stephen, Daniel, Cameron and Gavin – currently lead the family’s farming enterprise. By Lea Coghlan STANLEY’S LEGACY When Stanley Mackay established a company to run his banana farm in Tully, Far North Queensland, 75 years ago,…

Panama TR4 Program engagement officer, Rebeca Breaden, delivering a Panama Ed session to SES volunteers in Innisfail before the COVID-19 health pandemic. By Sarah Flenley, Biosecurity Queensland’s Panama TR4 ProgramHow will BQ’s engagement team keep Panama TR4 front and centre in people’s minds over the…