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From Picking Bag to Bin: Where Apple Bruising Happens
October 25, 2026 • Hari Yellina
Cherry Harvest Quality: What Picking Crews Need to Know Before the First Bin
October 25, 2026 • Hari Yellina
Farm Tanks and Pits: Recognise a Confined-Space Job Before Sending a Worker
October 13, 2026 • Hari Yellina
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Farm Automation: How New Machines Change the Seasonal Crew’s Jobs
How growers can assess the jobs that remain or emerge when a field task is automated.
October 2, 2026 • Hari Yellina
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Purple ‘Greens’ the New Normal in Australia?
It seems that Australia is heading towards a colourful palette. In recent times, coloured vegetables are taking over the fresh markets. For instance, Australians have been enjoying the aesthetic eggplants, beetroots and cabbages. Now adding to this selection, producers have also introduced purple cauliflower, carrots and broccoli. These purple ‘greens’ are now available in supermarkets […]
June 25, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Organic Spinach a Winner in Australia
Archive article. This article describes the period originally reported. It is not a current market, recruitment, health or regulatory update. For newer reading, visit the Orchard Tech Knowledge Centre and check the relevant official sources before acting. While growers appreciate rain, it may often be excessive. Additionally, rain is viewed as a godsend in a […]
June 25, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Why Australian Vegetable Growers Still Face a Cost Squeeze
Australia’s vegetable production value has grown, but input costs can still squeeze individual farms. Here is what current data says and how to plan the harvest crew.
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Fresh Spuds on the Market
Thomas Foods International is investing in a major processing unit to beat the time on potato shelf life. As part of extensive upgrades to its Penfield Gardens-based manufacturing plant, the firm, which is one of Australia’s leading food processors, has built a world-first Spectrim potato grading line. A 12-lane Compac sorter with Spectrim grading technology, […]
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Is the Vegetable Greenhouse Chain Capable of Bearing Costs?
Archive article. This article describes the period originally reported. It is not a current market, recruitment, health or regulatory update. For newer reading, visit the Orchard Tech Knowledge Centre and check the relevant official sources before acting. Who will be responsible for the rising costs? That is the question on everyone’s mind in the greenhouse […]
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Consumers Hesitant to Eat Eggplants?
Archive article. This article describes the period originally reported. It is not a current market, recruitment, health or regulatory update. For newer reading, visit the Orchard Tech Knowledge Centre and check the relevant official sources before acting. In the Netherlands, Purple Pride just debuted an eggplant shawarma. Growers United, a growers’ organisation dedicated to eggplant […]
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Organic Mushrooms Witnessed in Illawarra
The mushrooms at Illawarra’s Bulli Woolworths, like those at other supermarkets, are grown for consistency and shelf life, and may travel considerable distances – even from overseas – before reaching tables. However, across the street, behind the artist studios in the old Molloy Timbermill, there are blooms of strange and delicious oyster and shiitake mushrooms […]
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Is the Majority of French Sweet Corn Exported?
This archived overview reports comments by Nicolas Montepagano of A.G.P.M. and includes sweet-corn statistics for 2019–2021. It is not a current French production or trade update. France is a European leader, as the second largest producer of sweet corn for manufacture and tied for first in canned corn output. However, with more than 80% of […]
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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Abundance of Lettuce Found in Canberra
Archive article. This article describes the period originally reported. It is not a current market, recruitment, health or regulatory update. For newer reading, visit the Orchard Tech Knowledge Centre and check the relevant official sources before acting. While major food chains may be feeling the squeeze, Pialligo Estate growers are thriving with availability as they […]
June 24, 2024 • Hari Yellina
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