Browse a selection of our
completed projects

We have completed many projects
over the last 25 years

Crop production

  • Managing water for yield & profit

  • Improving yield of quality seedless watermelons

  • Improving the sugar content and quality of rockmelons

  • Improving the uniformity of broccoli for efficient mechanical harvest

  • Improving sustainability through no-till permanent bed vegetable production systems

  • Integrating soil health practices into a commercial vegetable farming operation

  • Controlling transplant shock increases lettuce yields

  • Development of a crop scheduling model for cos and iceberg lettuce in Australia

  • Controlling multiple heading and transplant shock in lettuce

  • Crop scheduling for babyleaf spinach grown in Australia

  • An investigation of low cost protective cropping

  • Anhydrous ammonia for vegetable crops: Could it be a viable proposition?

  • Strip tillage & cover crops

Postharvest

  • Managing the flesh browning disorder of Cripps Pink apples

  • How sunburn affects the quality of pomegranate fruit

  • Identifying and sharing postharvest best practice on-farm and online

  • Preserving peak freshness of broccoli to increase sales

  • Nutrient content and portion size of avocados

  • Developing a nutrient and/or health claim label for packaged babyleaf spinach and rocket

  • Improved postharvest management of chestnuts

  • Pre-harvest effects on shelf-life and freshness of vegetables

  • Postharvest management of vegetables: Australian supply chain handbook and website

  • Passionfruit postharvest best practice review

Pests and diseases

  • Managing powdery mildew in cucurbits to prevent crop losses

  • Fruit fly research — Gap analysis

  • Controlling insect contaminants in processed leafy vegetables

  • New in-field treatment solutions to control fruit fly

  • Managing anthracnose in lettuce

  • Consumer videos on beneficial insects

  • Integrated Crop Protection - Helping vegetable growers protect crops

  • Soil diseases in vegetables under attack in new project

  • New pasture dieback project aims to find ways to improve productivity

  • Pasture dieback in Queensland – a review of relevant literature

Sustainability

  • Producing fish feed from vegetable waste

  • Managing the impacts of climate on the Australian vegetable industry

  • On-farm power generation - options for vegetable growers

  • How to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from processing tomatoes Environmental

  • How to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from processing tomatoes

  • Mulching and compost in apple and cherry orchards

  • Compost made from recycled organics is a winner for NSW vegetable growers

International projects

  • Supplying quality vegetables from the Nghe An province of Vietnam

  • Low cost protected cropping in the Central Philippines

  • High quality, safe vegetables in northwest Vietnam

  • How growing high-quality vegetables increased Vietnam vegetable farmers’ income by 150%

  • Improving Income and Nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Integrated Crop Management in the Southern Philippines

  • Improving livelihoods in Myanmar and Vietnam through vegetable value chains