March 2019 HIN event

5-7 March 2019, the HIN, represented by 12 industry organisations, attended a study tour of Sunraysia. The tour included visits to major fruit, vegetable & nut production companies, major packhouses, and a major transport and logistics hub. The HIN met with researchers from Agriculture Victoria with presentations on research in Nuts and wine including site visit to the research at Irymple (Mildura).

Horticulture industry network visit to Wakefields

Wakefield Transport

Mildura Fruit Company

Horticulture industry network visit to Agriculture Victoria dried fruit vineyard

Agriculture Victoria dried fruit vineyard - Sunmuscats drying on vine

Horticulture industry network visit to Sun World table grape breeding site

Sun World demonstration site

Horticulture industry network visit to Fruit Master Table grapes - exports, marketing business

Fruitmaster table grape business

Boundary Bend Olives

Horticulture industry network visit to Vegetable enterprise - Red Gold

Redgold Vegetables - lettuce & baby leaf

Horticulture industry network visit to Temperate nut research orchard, Irymple

Temperate nut research orchard – Agriculture Victoria

Horticulture industry network visit to OLAM

Olam Orchards Australia

Peter Ebner - Lower Murray Water

Queensland Fruit Fly discussion with Horticulture industry network

Deidre Jaensch, Sunraysia Regional Coordinator Fruit Fly

Dianne Fullelove (Melon Industry Development Officer) discussion with Horticulture industry network

Dianne Fullelove, Australian Melon Association

Site visits
- Wakefield Transport: transport & logistics hub with full end-to-end road/warehouse/rail intermodal hub.
- Mildura Fruit Company: Australia’s largest packer & exporter of fresh citrus
- Agriculture Victoria's dried fruit research vineyard
- Sun World table grape breeding site: with/without Giberellic acid application for sizing
- Fruit Master Table grapes: exports, marketing business
- Boundary Bend Olives: award winning major olive oil producer & exporter
- Red Gold Vegetable enterprise: baby leaf & lettuce varieties
- Olam Orchards Australia, Carwarp cracking plant: tour of fully automated packing house
- Agriculture Victoria, Irymple: New temperate nut research orchard
Presenters

Dr Micharel Treeby - Snapshots of work underway at Agriculture Victoria Mildura: almonds research, winery, CO₂, irrigation.
Peter Ebner, Lower Murray Water - water shares, water availability & deliverability issues, blue green algae impact.
Dianne Fullelove, Melon Industry Development Officer - impact of 2018 Listeria outbreak and industry’s and producers’ responses.
Deidre Jaensch, Regional QFF Co-ordinator - Queensland Fruit Fly in the Greater Sunraysia

Horticulture Industry Network members on tour