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Biosecurity, 16 Mar 2023
Assessing biosecurity risk and keeping track of visitors to the farm
Keeping track of visitor and vehicle on-farm movements is vital to managing biosecurity risks and managing workplace health and safety.
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Biosecurity, 08 Dec 2022
Good travel hygiene can reduce exotic grain pest threats
Visiting rural properties or grain industry sites could increase the risk of an exotic disease or pest entering and becoming established in Australia. International travellers arriving in Australia can significantly reduce the risk they pose by taking some basic precautions.
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Biosecurity, 14 Nov 2022
Investment in diagnostics pays dividends for grain growers
The Australian Government and plant-based research and development corporations, including GRDC, have joined forces to develop an all-plant R&D project to train more scientists and develop faster, more-efficient methods of detecting and diagnosing exotic threats. The ‘Boosting Diagnostic Capacity for Plant Production Industries’ project focuses on diagnostics for high priority exotic pests and diseases.
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Biosecurity, 28 Oct 2022
Bee surveillance program helps to protect grains industry
The National Bee Pest Surveillance Program is an early warning system to detect new incursions of exotic bee pests and pest bees. The surveillance program is important to ensure the health and wellbeing of European honey bees and the honey bee and pollination service industry.
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Biosecurity, 23 Oct 2022
Look out for tiny hitchhikers in used sea containers
Khapra beetle is number two on Australia’s National Priority Plant Pest list and the number-one pest for the grains industry. It is estimated that a widespread incursion could cost Australia $15.5 billion over a period of 20 years.
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Biosecurity, 14 Sep 2022
Strong biosecurity underpins grain industry profitability
The September 2022 issue of the GroundCover Supplement focused on plant biosecurity.
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Biosecurity, 04 Sep 2022
Protect your farm from hitchhiker pests
The Australian federal government (through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) places strict requirements on importers to reduce the risk of hitchhiker pests, such as khapra beetle, entering Australia. Yet all parts of the supply chain – including growers – have an important role to play
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Biosecurity, 04 Sep 2022
On the biosecurity front line
Grains biosecurity officers are at the forefront of protecting Australia’s $18 billion grains industry by helping growers manage biosecurity risks at a farm and industry level
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Biosecurity, 04 Sep 2022
Multi-crop pests tackled on a coordinated front
Through better targeting and coordination of research priorities, members of the Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative ensure investment in biosecurity RD&E is efficiently applied against pests that damage multiple crops, such as the fall armyworm, khapra and the brown marmorated stink bug
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Biosecurity, 04 Sep 2022
Hygiene and zoning stop pest spread
Help is available to develop a farm biosecurity plan and to apply simple biosecurity practices that reduce the spread of pests and diseases