March 23, 2016

Placing honeybee hives on top of fruit bins helps keep the hive from getting damp when sprinklers are running in orchard rows. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

6 tips for healthier bees

March 23, 2016

Experiments with Bartlett pear trees on Tatura Trellis began in 1975 at the Research Institute, Tatura, in the Goulburn Valley. The Bartlett trees are now producing commercial yields near Ardmona that we believe are at the biological limit of pear production. Yields of 114 to 123 tonnes per hectare/bins per acre is two to three times the average yield of commercial orchards with Bartlett trees in the Goulburn Valley, Australia. (Courtesy Bas van den Ende)

110+ bins of Bartlet pears per acre

March 23, 2016

Looking for new pollinizers

March 23, 2016

An example of a bulls-eye rot canker. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Researcher is targeting bull’s-eye rot

March 23, 2016

FreshTAP Logistics Inc. kegs wines for wineries in its Vancouver, B.C. warehouse, part of its centralized distribution service.(Courtesy FreshTAP Logistics Inc.)

Uncorked potential with wine on tap

March 23, 2016