Author Archives: Sam Eyres

Farmer’s Needs Drives Innovation

When governments made the difficult, but necessary decision and ordered their citizens strict quarantine after the COVID-19 outbreak, none of us rushed to buy a new, expensive phone or car. We all rushed to buy the essentials — wheat, rice, milk, vegetables or fruit. But what many forget is that the path from seed-to-plate is…

Weather monitoring to improve table grape disease management

High-tech weather stations are being installed on four table grape properties across the Swan Valley, South West and Gascoyne, as part of a new project to evaluate the accuracy of commercial disease risk prediction tools. There has been a proliferation of decision support applications in recent years to improve fungicide use efficiencies by refining the…