WEBINAR | SEASONAL CLIMATE UPDATE | Dale Grey, Agriculture Victoria | Oct 2025
Dale is a seasonal risk agronomist based in Bendigo, Victoria. He will give an update on the climate patterns, and how they're likely to effect the weather for the coming harvest season. He'll give his insights into what growers should expect for the summer months.
WEBINAR | RUBENS SENSOR PROJECT UPDATE | Glen Hale & John Lopresti, Fruitful Insights | Oct 2025
Ruben Sensors Project Update | Glen Hale & John Lopresti, Fruitful Insights | October 2025 Run time: 33 MinsGlen and John are the project leaders for Determining Harvest Maturity for Peaches and Nectarines (SF23005), a project which is building models for industry to be able to use the Rubens Sensor to determine harvest maturity. They will give an update on where the project is at, and how you can get involved.
WEBINAR | Project Update: Precision Orchard Management
Dr. Mark O'Connell from Agriculture Victoria gives an update on the Precision Summerfruit Orchards (SF23000) project.This project focuses on orchard management techniques (pruning, thinning, etc.) to improve fruit quality and yield outcomes for growers as well as considering labour uses efficencies.Dr. O'Connell will give updates on ongoing work and future work, as well as give results and recommendations based on previous seasons.
WEBINAR | Pest Preparedness for Summerfruit Growers | Carolyn Blomley, PHA | April 2025
Emergency Pest Preparedness: Where to start!?Plant Health Australia will give the basics of a pest response and what that will look like for a grower. They'll cover response protocols, obligations and grower costs.
WEBINAR | IRRADIATION UPDATES FOR INDUSTRY | Ben Reilly, Steritech Australia | October 2025
Ben Reilly from Steritech will give important updates for growers using irradiation on their fruit in the coming season. He will cover off on improvements to the process, learnings from last season as well as giving dates and timelines for this coming season. This is a pre-season operational planning update for growers to share with their relevant staff
WEBINAR | ACCESSING CONSUMER & SALES DATA | Wendy Hubbard, Hort Innovation | Oct 2025
Wendy Hubbard from Hort Innovation will give a summary of consumer and sales data for the last season. On top of this, she'll show how growers can access this data themselves, and how they can utilise it in the coming season.
WEBINAR | ACCESS LOADING: NEGOTIATING TECHNICAL MARKET ACCESS | Melinda Talevski, DAFF | Oct 2025
The presentation by DAFF will provide an overview of the government's work in negotiating technical market access with trading partners - what technical market is, how it works and some of the challenges associated with progressing negotiations. An update will also be provided on negotiations and activities that are currently underway relevant to the Summerfruit industry.
WEBINAR | 2024/25 SEASON RETAIL INSIGHTS: Understanding Consumer Behaviour in Retail
Building on the brief update given at the Summerfruit Grower Day, Deborah Beverly (Hort Innovation) will give an in depth insight into the consumer insights for the 2024/25 season for Summerfruit. Including Peaches, Nectarines, Plums & Apricots, Deborah will go through consumers sentiment towards summerfruit and and what may change their purchasing behaviours.This is a great session for anyone involved in summerfruit, particularly growers and packers who sell to the domestic market in Australia.
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Victoria’s Prospectus on Planning our Basin Future Together – Michael Jensz (DEECA)
2024 Summerfruit Conference - 24 July 2024 - Tatura SmartFarm
Understanding your supply chain better – Christian Patterson, Escavox
Information on understanding your supply chain from the 2023 symposium