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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

Choc tops for Panama plan

A visit to a Singapore chocolate factory has helped Australia’s largest banana farming operation to quickly implement a “traffic light” biosecurity system on their farms and share the information with other growers. Barrie MacKay and Mark Smith from Tully’s Mackay Estates were at a cocoa…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

The race to outpace Panama

The race is on to find new, disease resistant banana varieties that will flourish in subtropical conditions, providing more options and niche markets for the region’s growers. Story by Luke Roberts. Subtropical growers keen to develop niche markets using disease-resistant banana varieties have seen and…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

Managing free nitrogen

New research has drawn attention to the need to better manage naturally-occurring nitrogen found in the top 60 centimetres of soil during the crop establishment phase. Jeff Daniells, John Armour and Stewart Lindsay report. A Reef Rescue project investigating different slow release nitrogen fertilisers was…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

What assistance is resistance?

New banana varieties developed for TR4 resistance are already being trialled in Australia, with others in the pipeline. Jeff Daniells, Stewart Lindsay, Mike Smith, Sharon Hamill and Tony Pattison report on what’s here, what’s on the way and what’s the potential. The Panama disease Tropical…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

Tegan leads extension program

North Queensland soil health scientist Tegan Kukulies has been appointed as the new leader of the banana industry’s Banana Development and Extension Program. The new role began in March and Tegan is leading initiatives bringing the findings of banana research to growers via activities such…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

TR4… Why Queensland’s different

The recent discovery of Panama disease Tropical Race 4 in North Queensland has led to doomsayers predicting the end of the banana industry in Australia. Story by Tony Pattison. While not discounting the seriousness of the outbreak, there are several factors weighing in favour of…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles
21 May 2015

Feeding fruit when fertigating’s out

Reef Rescue Officer Robert Mayers provides this case study of how Mission Beach’s Barnes family gained funding assistance for a fertiliser spreader. Ian Barnes, along with his mother, father and sister, grows 32 hectares of Cavendish and Lady Finger bananas at Mission Beach in Far…
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