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09-02-2016

Red flowers in demand as Sydney Markets celebrate Chinese New Year

ABC Rural recently reported that the Sydney Produce and Flower Markets are seeing red, as celebrations ramp up for the Chinese New Year.

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26-01-2016

Weekend Valentine's Day boosts flower sales

Valentine’s Day 2016 falls on a Sunday, and many in the US floral industry believing that a weekend Valentine’s Day will result in dampened floral sales.

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26-01-2016

World Floral Exposition returns to California

California Association of Flower Growers & Shippers (CalFlowers) says it is thrilled that World Floral Exposition is returning to California in 2016.

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21-01-2016

Consumers encouraged to 'search and shop green-and-gold' in Australia Day lead-up

The not-for-profit Australian Made Campaign is calling on all Australians to support localfarmers and manufacturers this month by considering the many ways they can get behind them in the lead-up to Australia Day and beyond.

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19-01-2016

Rose industry raises environmental concerns

According to a recent Scientific American podcast, as roses are generally grown in warmer climates, such as South America for US markets and in Africa for Europe, they have to be flown to reach consumers. In addition, they also have to be driven in temperature-controlled trucks across countries and stored overnight in chillers.

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14-01-2016

HIA levy payer workshops

Hort Innovation Australia is asking all levy payers to attend a series of workshops with it to develop its inaugural Strategic Plan, setting the organisation’s strategy to 2018.

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14-01-2016

Good quality Freesia corms in NZ

In the first week of January, the freesia stocks of Van den Bos Flowerbulbs were checked in New Zealand.

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13-01-2016

Hydroponic chrysanthemum trials convincing

From October until December 2015, Proeftuin Zwaagdijk in The Netherlands conducted its fourth successful trial with hydroponically grown chrysanthemums.

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12-01-2016

FYI: Chile to export 60M+ flower bulbs in 2016

250 hectares of tulip and lilium bulb plantations are being inspected by the Agricultural and Livestock Service of Chile (SAG) in the region of Los Ríos to certify their health status and enable the export of more than 60 million bulbs of those flowers to different international markets.

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07-01-2016

US Valentine's Day floral market projected at $3.3 billion

Prince & Prince, Inc. (P&P) has released a projection for the retail value of US consumer floral purchasing for the upcoming 2016 Valentine’s Day holiday.

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