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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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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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Backpackers in step with biosecurity

With backpackers being a mainstay of the banana industry workforce, Innisfail hostel manager Nick Pervan has taken immediate action to make sure farm workers know biosecurity is everyone’s job. Nick, from the Backpackers Shack, wrote his own notice to farm workers to ensure they understood…

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Tissue culture – order now for 2016

Tissue culture provides clean planting material but growers need to plan well ahead if they want plants, including a TR4-tolerant variety. Sharon Hamill reports The incursion of Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4), also known as Fusarium wilt, in North Queensland means growers need to…

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Issue 44 – Winter 2015

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ABGC RELEASE ON SUSPECTED PANAMA TR4 CASE

March 4, 2015 – The Australian Banana Growers’ Council is working with biosecurity authorities following the announcement of a suspected find of Panama TR4 in Tully. Please click on the following link to see the statement Banana industry on alert after TR4 suspected

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Australian Bananas Magazine – Summer 2014

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