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While footy stars like Billy Slater stay super fit and healthy by training hard, for the rest of us footy’s probably something we take part in on the sofa rather than on the field. So this footy season, Australian avocado growers have recruited a number o

Last Tuesday Tom Silver welcomed the finalists of the 2010 Electrolux Appetite for Excellence (EAFE) competition to his avocado farm, Laurel Park, on the Alstonville Plateau.

Australian political history was made last week when the first female Prime Minister came to power. On that same day, inside the walls of Parliament House and only a few rooms away, the future direction of the Australian avocado industry was also being de

Last week the Australian avocado industry debuted their new mascot; Alvin Avocado. Avocados Australia, in partnership with Agri Science Queensland (DEEDI), have developed and released a set of supply chain education materials and handling guides to ensure

Every week Avocados Australia collects and reports retail avocado prices and other relevant information from retail markets in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Consistent reporting on avocado retail prices combined with the information already reported by the industry helps avocado growers, and the whole supply chain, make better informed management decisions.

Grade three and four kids from primary schools across South East Queensland attended Rural Discovery Day in Brisbane on Thursday, April 22, where they had the opportunity to learn everything there is to know about Australian avocados.

A selection of key members in the avocado industry met recently in Brisbane for two days of intense planning about the future direction of Australian avocados. The Australian avocado industry is now developing a new ‘Strategic Plan’ to address the challenges of the next five years, to ensure grower levy is invested wisely, to continue to build opportunities for avocado growers, and to ensure the industry continues to be a leader in horticulture.

Horticulture Australia (HAL) and Avocados Australia have committed to support the range of businesses that make up the avocado industry by allocating a budget for co-operative promotions in the 2009/10 season. The promotions must have similar goals and ob

Avocados Australia has a new Chairman. Mr Jim Kochi, an avocado grower of 32 years from Far North Queensland, has been voted the Chair of the national peak industry body for avocados.

In July in the far north of Australia, one of the Australian industry’s major avocado growing regions the 2009 Australian and New Zealand Avocado Growers’ Conference will be held. Held only every four years in, it is a great opportunity to see an avocado growing region that is usually hidden away by distance, while learning the latest techniques for growing, finding out all about avocado marketing, handing and consuming.