Australian conference to update apple growers on the latest research

The keynote speaker for this year’s Speed Updating conference run by Apple and Pear Australia will focus on robotics and automated harvesting. Dan Steere from Abundant Robotics will be one of the main speakers at the Tasmania conference.

Speed Updating is a program run each year by APAL to capture and present the research and development in the apple and pear industry. This year APAL is running Speed Updating as part of the Fruitgrowers Tasmania Conference, which will be held at the Tailrace Centre Riverside in Launceston on Thursday, May 25.

The conference will include speakers well known to Goulburn Valley growers. Ian Goodwin, from the Agriculture Research Branch, is the Horticulture Production Sciences research manager at DEDJTR.

His current research includes understanding the effects of climate extremes on fruit production, improving resource use efficiency in orchards and investigating innovative production systems to maximise quality of new red-blushed pears.

source: riverineherald.com.au

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