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Integrated orchard management is featured in this edition of the Bulletin, along with an advertorial special on innovation, the regular R&D Update, Macadamia Conservation Trust column and AMS and industry news.

The IOM feature includes case studies examining how growers have implemented plans to improve yield and manage drainage and erosion.

The R&D Update profiles well known researcher Paul O’Hare from QDPI and examines research into whether organic soil amendments help suppress Phythophthora and into the macadamia genome.

Article authors include Robbie Commens, Lynne Ziehlke, Nyree Epplett and Anne Currey, AMS; Ian McConachie; Graeme Fleming; Kel Langfield, North Coast LLS; Jeremy Bright, NSW DPI; and Dr Femi Akinsanmi, The University of Queensland.