AUSVEG Resources
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Pest and disease preparedness – How to protect your farm (November 2021)
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Farm Biosecurity Action Plan
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Potato Growers’ Biosecurity Manual
Industry biosecurity plans:
- Industry Biosecurity Plan for the Potato Industry V3.2
- Industry Biosecurity Plan for the Vegetable Industry V3.2
Vehicle cleaning factsheet:
- Vehicle Cleaning Fact Sheet – Chinese
- Vehicle Cleaning Fact Sheet – English
- Vehicle Cleaning Fact Sheet – Khmer
- Vehicle Cleaning Fact Sheet – Vietnamese
Vietnamese resources:
Biosecurity signage is available from AUSVEG free-of-charge (limits apply).
Farm hygiene is the first step to helping growers protect their own business and the wider horticulture industry, while minimising production losses and unnecessary costs associated with pest outbreaks.
Anyone coming onto a farm can be a biosecurity risk as many pests and diseases can hitchhike on clothing, hands, footwear and vehicles. If implemented correctly, farm hygiene practices have the potential to significantly reduce these risks. The first step to limiting the spread of pests and diseases on-farm is to install biosecurity signage at property entrance points.
Biosecurity signage is available to levy-paying Australian vegetable and potato growers from AUSVEG free-of-charge.
Please send an email to science@ausveg.com.au or call 03 9882 0277 to request signs or for further information.
Fact sheet – Farm gate biosecurity signage:
- Farm Gate Biosecurity fact sheet – English
- Farm Gate Biosecurity fact sheet – Chinese
- Farm Gate Biosecurity fact sheet – Khmer
- Farm Gate Biosecurity fact sheet – Vietnamese
Biosecurity sign template (for printing):
New pest information resources:
- Potato Virus Y (PVY, PVY-NTN) (April 2023)
- Guava root knot nematode factsheet (March 2023)
- Management of fall armyworm in vegetable crops in Australia (November 2021)
- Pest and disease preparedness – How to protect your farm (November 2021)
Factsheets:
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Fall Armyworm
- Giant African Snail
- Pest disease & weed surveillance
- Report to the Exotic Plant Pest Hotline
- Serpentine leafminer
- Management of leafmining flies in vegetable and nursery crops in Australia
- Monitoring for serpentine leafminer in Australia
- Tomato-Potato Psyllid and Zebra Chip
- Tomato-Potato Psyllid
- Vegetable Leafminer
National management plans:
Videos:
- Industry’s role in exotic incursions: A case study of the arrival of Tomato potato psyllid (October 2021)
- American Serpentine Leafminer: Are you prepared? (September 2021)
- Ayr, QLD – Pest and Disease Workshop (August 2021)
- Gippsland, VIC – Pests, diseases and biosecurity webinar (August 2021)
- Fall Armyworm Webinar Series
- Exotic Leafminers Webinar Series (July 2020)
- Tomato Potato Psyllid, Fall Armyworm and Exotic Leafminers Webinar Series (June 2020)
- Western Australia Biosecurity Webinar (May 2020)
- VegNET Tasmania Biosecurity Webinar (April 2020)
- VegNET Vegetable Levy R&D Project Updates & Discussion (March 2020)
- The Plant Pod – Episode 9: Nursery Data & Vegetable Leafminer (June 2021)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Bug-ly – Episode 3 (UPHN): Taking a close look at the Tomato potato psyllid, otherwise known as TPP (with Callum Fletcher) (February 2021)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Bug-ly – Episode 1 (UPHN): Do you know what sort of bugs are in your backyard garden? (with Maddy Quirk) (January 2021)
- Fall armyworm podcast series – Plant Health Australia (2020)
External Resources
- Bacterial Ring Rot
- Biosecurity for farm workers (English full length)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (English short version)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (Bislama)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (French)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (Khmer)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (Korean)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (Tongan)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (Vietnamese)
- Biosecurity for farm workers (Tetum)
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Carrot Rust Fly
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Currant Lettuce Aphid
- Exotic Leaf Miners
- Greenhouse Whitefly
- Leaf Miners
- Melon Fruit Fly
- Melon Thrips
- Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid
- QFly and MedFly
- Serpentine Leaf Miner
- Vegetable Leaf Miner
- Western Flower Thrips
- Working on farm – brochure
- Working on farm – fact sheet
- Brassica Whitefly Control In Vegetables
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Brassica Vegetables
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Brassica Leafy Vegetables
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Capsicums And Chillies
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Carrots
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Celery
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Cucumbers
- How Can I Control Pests? Options For Controlling High Priority Pests In Lettuce
- Insect Pests Of Cucurbit Vegetables
- Managing Onion Maggot In Vegetables
- Thrips In Green Beans
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Department of Agriculture and Food Biosecurity Alert
- Department of Food and Agriculture Industry Update
- Dickeya dianthicola
- Dickeya dianthicola – what does quarantine mean for my business?
- Destruction and disposal guidelines – Dickeya dianthicola
- Tomato-Potato Psyllid Department of Agriculture and Food Fact Sheet
- Tomato potato Psyllid – Factsheet
- Tomato-Potato Psyllid: How to check my vegetable patch