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19-12-2017
Boosting growth for WA F&B businesses
Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is offering a total of $150,000 in grants to help agriculture, food and beverage businesses attract investment and growth capital.
19-12-2017
Inaugural Harraway's Visiting Professorship announced
The University of Otago is pleased to announce Belgian researcher Professor Marc Hendrickx will visit Otago from July to August 2018 as the inaugural Harraway’s 1867 Visiting Professorship recipient.
19-12-2017
$4m investment to combat biosecurity threats
New investment into the Australian Centre for Genomic Epidemiology (Ausgem) will help safeguard the state’s agriculture, horticulture, livestock and equine industries, which underpin the $15 billion primary industries sector in NSW.
19-12-2017
Rabobank New Zealand announces new CEO
Rabobank New Zealand has announced it proposes to appoint Todd Charteris to the position of chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approval.
18-12-2017
Preventing agricultural mobile plant roll-over fatalities
In December 2017, a worker on a Tamborine Mountain avocado farm was killed when a single seat ride-on mower being driven by another worker rolled over on a steep slope and crushed her.
18-12-2017
Myrtle Rust locations increase
NZPPI reports that with a number of new finds over the past week, the number of new finds since 7 December brings the total Restricted Places to 183.
18-12-2017
Industry welcomes return of parks and recreation major
Parks and Recreation Senior Lecturer Stephen Espiner and Associate Professor Emma Stewart are delighted with the return of the unique major, which the University offered from 2008 to 2014, as they say it will help to meet a greater demand for skilled workers in the sector.
18-12-2017
Stingless bees latest weapon to protect Aussie crops
Researchers are boosting their understanding of native stingless bees as pollinators in a $10M effort to help safeguard Australia’s fruit, nut, vegetable and cut flower supply into the future.
18-12-2017
How big is the urban/rural divide?
“With the recent debates about water, the question of how big the urban/rural divide is – and how we can close the gap – has been something those of us concerned with growing food have been mulling over,” says Horticulture New Zealand CEO Mike Chapman.
18-12-2017
Potato field days
John Sarup, UK potato agronomist, will speak at a number of potato field days in January.
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