The Australian New Crops Newsletter

The Australian New Crops Newsletter

Issue No 11, January 1999.

Dr Rob Fletcher, Publisher and Editor
Gerry Kregor, Associate Editor

School of Land and Food
The University of Queensland Gatton College
Queensland Australia 4345
Telephone 07 5460 1311 or 07 5460 1301
Facsimile 07 5460 1112
International facsimile 61 7 5460 1112

NOTICE: Hard copies of the Australian New Crops Newsletter are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher. Details of availability are included in the Advice on Publications Available.

Table of Contents

  1. Editorial
  2. Critical Success Factors and Strategic Issues in New Agricultural Enterprises
  3. Hydroponic Herb Production as a New Industry
  4. Will Your New Venture Pay? Risk Management
  5. Mapping a Risk Profile
  6. Establishing New Crop Industries: Alternative approaches
  7. Entering the Herb Industry
    1. Herb growing consultants
    2. Herb seed suppliers
    3. Overseas herb seed suppliers
    4. Herb references
  8. Eucalyptus torquata, Eucalyptus saligna, Eucalyptus forrestiana, Banksia spp.
  9. Herb Raw Materials Currently Used in Manufacturing in Australia
  10. Survey of Readers of the Australian New Crops Newsletter
  11. Technology Protection System or Terminator Gene?
  12. The Hot 50 Farm Marketing Tips; from 'Sell What You Sow' by Eric Gibson
  13. Commercialisation of New Crops
  14. Letters to the Editors
  15. Communications via Email and the Newcrops LISTSERV
  16. Crop Profiles
    1. Stevia rebaudiana (Sweet Honey Leaf)
    2. Ramie: The different bast fibre crop
    3. Pitaya (Hylocereus undatus): A potential new crop for Australia
    4. Edible Australian Acacias: A new/old food for semi-arid zones
    5. Cleome gynandra (Cat's whiskers)
    6. Matricaria recutita (German chamomile)
    7. Ginseng in Australia
    8. Putting Sense Back into Industrial Hemp
    9. Vegetable Amaranth Improvement for South Africa
  17. New Crops and Oilseeds from Ethiopia and Elsewhere
  18. Emerging Opportunities in Agriculture, Tamworth, October 1998
    1. Pulses-Product Development
    2. Navy Beans
    3. Faba Beans in Northern New South Wales
    4. Essential Oils for the Northern Slopes and Tablelands of New South Wales
    5. The Olive Industry
    6. Farm Forestry in Northern NSW
    7. Paulownia, An Emerging Forestry Opportunity
    8. Carbon Credits and Carbon Trading
    9. Adzuki Bean
    10. Lentils
    11. Sustainable Fibre Research
    12. Networking in the Horticultural Industry
    13. Risk Management
    14. Marketing Horticultural Products
  19. The Big Grain Day, Emerald, Queensland, August 1999
  20. Contacts for New Industry Activities, Agriculture Western Australia
  21. Conference Reports
    1. New Rural Industries 1998, Advancing Innovation
    2. Positive Outcomes for New Rural Industries
    3. Recent Developments in Acacia Planting
  22. Developer Profile: Christopher Dean, Thursday Plantation Laboratories Ltd
  23. Bushfood Research Funded by RIRDC
    1. RIRDC Bushfood Marketing Research Update
    2. Food Safety of Australian Bushfoods
    3. Bushfood Industry Database
  24. Research Paper
    1. Maximising freshness but minimising micobial food safety hazards in fresh bamboo shoots, Dr Volker Kleinhenz
  25. Thesis Summaries
    1. The influence of leaf canopy on seed and gum yield of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba [L.] Taub.), Dr Helen Murphy
    2. Improvement of papaya (Carica papaya L.) for South-east Queensland: investigations of sex-type and fruit quality, Dr Songpol Somsri
    3. New crops potential of Queensland-grown Geranium (Pelargonium hybrid) for essential oil, Dr Luigino Doimo
  26. New Crop Publications
  27. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  28. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  29. Bushfood and Related Groups and their Contacts
  30. New Crop Inquiries
  31. New Crop Web Links and Listservers
  32. Abbreviated Directory of New Crops Workers in Australia

Any claims made by authors in the Australian New Crops Newsletter are presented by the Editors in good faith. Readers would be wise to critically examine the circumstances associated with any claims to determine the applicability of such claims to their specific set of circumstances. This material can be reproduced, with the provision that the source and the author (or editors, if applicable) are acknowledged and the use is for information or educational purposes. Contact with the original author is probably wise since the material may require updating or amendment if used in other publications. Material sourced from the Australian New Crops Newsletter cannot be used out of context or for commercial purposes not related to its original purpose in the newsletter

Contact: Dr Rob Fletcher, School of Land and Food, The University of Queensland Gatton College, 4345; Telephone: 07 5460 1311 or 07 5460 1301; Facsimile: 07 5460 1112; International facsimile: 61 7 5460 1112; Email: r.fletcher@mailbox.uq.edu.au

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