To support NQ growers’ efforts this year, Avocados Australia and the National Avocado Extension project team are helping to deliver the NQ Avocado Grower Regional Forum happening on Wednesday 27 August (8.00am to 3.00pm) at the Mareeba International Club (10 Vaughan St). An orchard walk will take place in the afternoon at Ceres Avocados.
Avocados are packed full of nutrition and offer many health benefits.* In 2023/24 Australian avocado growers produced 150,913 tonnes of avocados supplying all year round. Of this volume, North QLD (NQ) avocado growers produced 21%, 32,342 tonnes.** To support NQ growers’ efforts this year, Avocados Australia and the National Avocado Extension project team are helping to deliver the NQ Avocado Grower Regional Forum happening on Wednesday 27 August (8.00am to 3.00pm) at the Mareeba International Club (10 Vaughan St). An orchard walk will take place in the afternoon at Ceres Avocados.
All of NQ’s avocado growers, their orchard staff and packers are invited to attend this free event. Lawrence Masasso, Avocados Australia’s NQ Director, will be present at the forum.
“I look forward to seeing all North Queensland industry participants at what promises to be a very interesting and informative day,” said Lawrence Masasso.
The NQ Avocado Grower Regional Forum is supported by Avocados Australia and delivered by the Hort Innovation funded Avocado industry development and extension project team (AV23010). The technical theme for the event is: Crop management.
The forum will feature technical guest speakers such as Dr Gerhard Rossouw (QDPI) who is speaking on Carbohydrate management, and Dr Stephen Trueman (Griffith University) on Pollination and fruit set. Other speakers include Bridie Carr (QDPI), David Bin (QDPI), John Tyas (Avocados Australia CEO), and Hayleigh Dawson (Avocados Australia’s Market Development Manager).
“Technical content for the forum has been developed with direct input from NQ growers through the project’s dedicated NQ regional lead, David Bin,” said Bridie Carr, Senior Extension Horticulturist at Department of Primary Industries, Queensland.
After the presentations the Grower Round Robin Sessions will provide growers with the chance to ask questions and find out more information directly from each of the speakers.
John Tyas, CEO of Avocados Australia, will be attending and presenting an Industry Update at the forum. He recommends that all avocado growers attend this event as it will provide useful information, advice and resources.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270406
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Our family are great avocado consumers, but the pale smooth skinned variety are the only ones worth buying
No not for avocados, they have a natural sheen. Editor
Have they fallen for the GATES APEEL program, a chemical that is put on produce to lengthen it’s shelf life, but is full of diglycerides that cause inflammation, heart disease, and hardening of the arteries, part of his eugenics program.
Tue 10 May 2022
Truckloads of avocados left to rot after being dumped in far north Queensland
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10798983/Why-Aussie-farmers-dumping-truckloads-avocados-despite-prices-surging-Coles.html
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/personal-finance/why-farmers-are-dumping-truckloads-of-avocados-despite-massive-food-price-rises-c-6731991
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-10/avocados-dumped-far-north-queensland-prices-plummet/101051938
Beware of ColesWorths, China, the Australian government or industry boards saying they are here to help!
From my investigations and first hand experience I do hope these farmers have not SOLD out to ColesWorths or the Chinese.
Sold out meaning, silent loans, contract prices for loans, contract supplies for loans, seed insensitives for loans, research for loans.
My research and first hand experience is that both ColesWorths and the Chinese with Australian government backing has wiped out nearly all the Dairy farmers, pork, sheep and cropping, the citrus farmers and are now after the beef industry.
They do this by buying up the factories, processing facilities and market manipulation sponsored by the government (brown paper bags from lobbyist to Ministers and Swamp Rats) this then allows the extortionate regulations, contract control for quality quantities and price decline or cut offs at set times of the year meaning farmers go broke and get desperate to save face.
My investigations shows a vast majority of Australian farmers are just living on the property pretending to keep up with the Joneses driving flash landcruses and wearing nice clothes, but infact the farm has gone and they are only living there as caretakers or employees for ColesWorths or the Chinese, when the kids get older (who think they are rich farmers) dad commits suicide to avoid telling the truth that the farm was gone years ago.
Don’t be fooled by what people drive or how they dress and certainly keep vigilant on their motives and actions.
They said the smooth skinned ones like in the photo are the real deal and the rough skinned “Hass” or however they’re called are the fake ones, bred for shelf life , toughness &c, missing some amount of vitamins, minerals, oils or whatever they have done to them.