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Article by Crop: Apple and Pear

September 2010

  • Apple/pear industry prepares for climate change
  • APFIP certified nursery trees
  • Bending apple branches

    • August 2010

  • Effective use of thinning tools

    • June 2010

  • APFIP pear rootstock trial 2010
  • Manage apples under netting
  • Prune spurs and flick buds to grow large nashi pears

    • May 2010

  • Turn blind wood into productive wood

    • March 2010

  • Saving water post-harvest in pear orchards
  • New pears to attract a new generation of consumers
  • APFIP Update

    • February 2010

  • Thoughts on new apple varieties

    • December 2009

  • About bees & pollination
  • Weed control in pome & stone fruit

    • November 2009

  • Intensive apple orchard systems - comparison & economic assessment

    • October 2009

  • Bending apple branches
  • Winter Pear School highlights industry potential

    • August 2009

  • New pear varieties - get involved
  • Maximising fruit size & quality with effective thinning

    • June 2009

  • Benefit from netting
  • National Winter Pear School attracts leading experts

    • May 2009

  • Breeding the perfect pear
  • Tree planting options

    • April 2009

  • Bringing the world of pears to your door
  • Dealing with heat-affected fruit

    • March 2009

  • Saving water post-harvest in pear orchards
  • Can our pear industry exist without new rootstocks?
  • Pears - too long the poor cousin

    • February 2009

  • Organic production of scab-resistant apples
  • Progress on new apple plantings

    • December 2008

  • Value adding - the Pink Lady(R)?apple
  • Drought and tree survival
  • Quality fruit with limited water
  • Irrigating with bore water
  • Pears: ripping vs cutting in winter

    • November 2008

  • Top work at Orange Ag Institute
  • Update on new plantings and treatments

    • October 2008

  • APFIP pear rootstock trial
  • Thinning and managing spring vigour

    • September 2008

  • Viruses - a real threat to productivity
  • Plan ahead to get what you want

    • August 2008

  • Thinning tools optimise fruit quality
  • Grow Williams' pears profitably

    • June 2008

  • Netting improves orchard productivity
  • Limb crowding

    • May 2008

  • Dwarf Cripps Pink
  • Investing in new apple varieties
  • Planting for future profit
  • Williams' pear pollination & parthenocarpy

    • April 2008

  • Pome fruit post harvest nutrition
  • Williams' pear pollination & parthenocarpy

    • March 2008

  • APFIP certification program
  • Summer prune Cripps Pink for colour

    • February 2008

  • Sunburn on apples
  • Train and retain pickers

    • December 2007

  • Quality fruit with limited water
  • Research findings and management of Alternaria fruit spot
  • Managing white root rot in Qld

    • November 2007

  • Thinning pears
  • Monitor mites
  • Fine-tune fruit thinning

    • October 2007

  • Control excessive shoot growth
  • Manage spring vigour

    • September 2007

  • Control woolly apple aphid

    • August 2007

  • Thin to optimise yield & fruit quality
  • Expert techniques for pears
  • The winter chill
  • Winter pruning
  • Granny Smith on MM106 + Tatura trellis

    • June 2007

  • Intensive apple orchard plantings
  • Hail netting improves orchard productivity
  • High early yields: Williams' pears on seedling rootstock

    • May 2007

  • Essence of breeding designer pears
  • The business of fruit growing
  • High early yields from Williams' pear trees on seedling rootstock
  • Comparing apples with... pears

    • April 2007

  • Essence of breeding designer pears

    • March 2007

  • Correct use of DPA

    • February 2007

  • Pear production in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Drenching is more than washing fruit

    • December 2006

  • Final import risk analysis report for apples from New Zealand
  • Industry considers options following release of IRA on NZ apples
  • Set goals for Simple production systems

    • November 2006

  • Apple and pear industry handbook released
  • How to future proof your orchard
  • APAL Europe Study Tour
  • What you said about: APAL communications Your orchards
  • The Horticulture Water Initiative
  • Consumers enjoy new black spot resistant apple

    • October 2006

  • APAL European Study Tour
  • Strong support for Future Orchards 2012 orchard walks
  • 2006 Marketing program update
  • A world of apples & pears
  • Pear breeding in Australia
  • KIKU(TM) attracts international attention

    • September 2006

  • APAL conference highlights
  • Beat the anticipated flood of fruit
  • Launch of Future Orchards 2012 and start of Orchard Walks
  • APFIP Update
  • Overcoming apple replant disease-research update
  • Decide on well-developed nursery trees

    • August 2006

  • Tools for apple and pear grower profitability
  • Experience China
  • $1 million for apple & pear industry
  • IPM, rootstocks & WAA
  • Tools to maximise fruit quality
  • Residue testing program to expand
  • Nutrient stress management

    • June 2006

  • Experience China
  • APFIP Update
  • Get involved and improve your orchard efficiency
  • Peek into the future of produce marketing
  • Apple orchard under hail netting

    • May 2006

  • $2 million upgrade to packing house
  • National Apple & Pear Conference
  • Peek into the future of produce marketing
  • Assessing the market potential of a new variety
  • Experience South Tyrol

    • April 2006

  • Rosy colour right to the core
  • Pre-season Grower Check List
  • Peek into the future of produce marketing
  • New Zealand IRA Update
  • Industry response to draft IRA
  • Intensive pear production in Europe

    • March 2006

  • Peek into the future of produce marketing
  • Postharvest treatment revisited
  • Commercialising new apple and pear varieties
  • A taste for new apple varieties

    • February 2006

  • New Zealand 2006 apple crop
  • Taiwan fruit protocol
  • Industry responds to IRA for apples from NZ
  • 2006 Marketing program update
  • Pear rootstock demonstration site
  • Potential new WAA control method
  • Expect changes to export MRLs

    • December 2005

  • Draft Import Risk Analysis report for apples from NZ
  • PLA Program continues to deliver
  • Managing late season Alternaria leaf blotch and fruit spot infections
  • Effectiveness of orchard mulches
  • Canning industry Cost of Production study
  • Walls of fruit in France

    • November 2005

  • WA pear growers squeezed by imports
  • Organic production of new black spot resistant apples
  • Clubs may limit variety success
  • History of European pear cultivation
  • US pears - packing & rootstocks
  • Reduce fruit russet in apples & pears

    • October 2005

  • Implications of Federal Court pork judgement
  • Helping industries implement IPM
  • Explore intensive pear production systems
  • Importance of nursery trees to profitability
  • Intensive planting systems for pears
  • Pruning and fruit quality
  • Farm gate marketing in New Jersey
  • Lifting apple & pear sales

    • September 2005

  • China - overview and impressions
  • White root rot of apples

    • August 2005

  • Marketing Pink Lady(TM) apples in the UK
  • Formula for successful thinning
  • Challenges, benefits of high density apple growing
  • Searching for new host-plant attractants for OFM and CM females
  • Innovative technology in 21st century permaculture
  • New varieties, new marketing model

    • June 2005

  • In the Pink
  • Apple & Pear levy changes - 1 July
  • Apple & pear residue testing program
  • Australian apples a hit in India
  • Well Informed Grower project
  • Changing world of new variety management
  • Challenges & benefits of high density apples

    • May 2005

  • Resistant rootstocks - long term solution for woolly
  • Adjust to a price concious export market
  • View variety reports online
  • Apple Replant Disease

    • April 2005

  • Prepare for Pink Lady? apple harvest
  • PREVAR breeding excitement
  • Agreement protects & secures plant industries
  • Quality trees for profitability

    • March 2005

  • Messages from Fruit Logistica
  • Intensive apple production systems

    • February 2005

  • Experience new Aussie-bred apples
  • Family farms - the next endangered species?
  • Apple cultivation

    • January 2005

  • Apple myths
  • Production systems for Australian-bred black spot
  • INTERPOMA and the Eastern Bloc
  • PHA projects to benefit industry
  • Apple myths
  • Update: National pear breeding program
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