Optimising Spray Application Part 3: Droplets
Droplet size matters. In Part 3 of our Optimising Spray Application video series, Alison MacGregor and New Zealand spray application expert David Manktelow explore droplets – droplet size, droplet behaviour, the term spray quality, and how all that comes together to determine the success of your coverage.
Optimising Spray Application Part 2: Targets
Understanding targets when you’re setting up your sprayer is key to improving spray application. As the canopy changes through the season, targets change and so adjusting your air and water is critical to ensuring the target is always met.
Optimising Spray Application Part 1: Basic Principles
Growers spend a lot of time and money on their spray program, so enhancing spray application in vineyards is critical. The ATGA produced a series of videos on optimising vineyard spray application as a result of some spray application workshops hosted in 2022. The first of these videos looks at the big picture, and the […]
Bait Like a Boss: Part 3 – Where to land bait
Want to Bait Like a Boss? You need to know where to land bait! Watch part 3 of our Bait Like a Boss video series to uncover the perfect conditions for fruit fly to dine on bait, or find out more information: bit.ly/Queenslandfruitflyresources
Bait Like a Boss: Part 2 – Recognising fruit flies and their damage
Understanding fruit fly behaviour, and how to bait spray for control, is an essential part of any table grape producer’s integrated pest and disease management program. Want to Bait Like a Boss? You need to know your enemy. Watch part 2 of our Bait Like a Boss video series on identifying fruit fly.
Bait Like a Boss: Part 1 – What’s in fruit fly bait?
Understanding fruit fly behaviour, and how to bait spray for control, is an essential part of any table grape producer’s integrated pest and disease management program.
Managing fruit fly in table grape vineyards – Seasonal time lapse
We took a typical table grape production season and applied fruit fly management markers to demonstrate how the canopy and growth change dramatically throughout the season. Time-lapse vision kindly provided by Andrew Taylor and the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
Export Registration Guide for Use video
ATGA released a guide for use for producers registering to export to protocol markets. This guide is relevant to both the 2023/24 and 2024/25 export seasons and contains step-by-step instructions for using the export registration system.
Early season sprayer maintenance tips
An integral but often-forgotten part of a spray program is the maintenance required and upkeep. Here we hear from table grape producers and machinery providers about their early season maintenance tips.
Early monitoring for mealybug
In the first of our pest & disease videos, the ATGA explores early monitoring for mealybug.