by AWIA | Jan 6, 2021 | Industry
Introducing the HARPS Newsletter! Welcome to the inaugural edition of the HARPS Newsletter! To say that 2020 has been a year of change would be an understatement. With the change we have all been experiencing, mostly video conferencing from behind our computers,...
by AWIA | Oct 27, 2020 | Industry
Following consultation with industry stakeholders, we have published 2 new spray drift guidance documents to assist registrants with applications to update spray drift instructions, apply for a new spray drift risk assessment, or apply for consideration of new drift...
by AWIA | Apr 30, 2020 | Industry
Fresh Australian walnuts are on their way to market with this year’s harvest now complete in New South Wales orchards and nearing completion in other states. The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t greatly affected the industry, with harvest able to continue largely as normal...
by AWIA | Apr 8, 2020 | Industry
Despite the state of catastrophe decreed in Chile due to the spread of the coronavirus, fruit production has taken extreme hygiene measures to protect the sector’s workers and to continue at its usual pace, thus guaranteeing the supply of the Chilean population...
by AWIA | Mar 5, 2020 | Industry
In walnut orchards in California, studies by Dr. Sacha Heath, University of California, Davis, and Rachael Long, UC Cooperative Extension Field Crops and Pest Management Advisor, are demonstrating that encouraging beneficial bird populations in and near the orchard is...
by AWIA | Mar 5, 2020 | Industry
Walnut sales to China drop 90%, pistachio exports down 30% and almond shipments drop 20% This season’s ‘big three’ nut crop exports to China/Hong Kong are slight when it comes to walnuts and are off by double digits in the case of pistachios and almonds....
