Jul 10, 2024 | Australia, Grove Innovation News, Research
Demand for healthy bee colonies for pollination and declining global bee health necessitate improved hive monitoring. Horticulturalists want pollination-ready hives, and beekeepers value early intervention against disease and stress. To address these challenges,...
May 14, 2024 | Australia, Grove Innovation News, Olive business, Research
The Australian Tree Crop Map was first imagined in 2014, when tree crop industries approached the Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre (AARSC) to see whether remote sensing technology could be used to estimate the size of their respective production areas....
Apr 9, 2024 | Australia, Grove Innovation News, Olive Diseases, Research, Technology/Science
A landmark new initiative, Catalysing Australia’s Biosecurity (CAB), will draw on cutting-edge technologies and digital systems to strengthen the nation’s biosecurity defences and protect our native species, crops, livestock and food supply. With an initial...
Feb 13, 2024 | Australia, Grove Innovation News, Research, Surveys
The Strategic Agrichemical Review Process (SARP) is currently underway across a range of levy-paying industries, including olives. The industry SARP reports assist in ensuring the availability of and access to effective chemical controls for each industry’s...
Feb 13, 2024 | Diet/Food, Grove Innovation News, Olives and Health, Research
The Olive Wellness Institute’s great work just doesn’t stop, sharing user-friendly information on the health benefits of olive products via both attendance at events and its online presence. Recent additions have focussed on the Mediterranean Diet (Med Diet) –...
Jan 9, 2024 | Australia, Courses/Education, Grove Innovation News, Research
Pairing the current alcohol and soapy water washes, sugar shakes and sticky strips with laser beams, cameras, vibration detection and DNA testing, are just some of the options being looked at to help beekeepers to monitor their hives for varroa mite. Delivered through...
