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.http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ListServ/listserv.html
Within the Purdue New Crops Web Page on the Internet, there is the opportunity to subscribe (for free) to a listserver, a mail system managed by the new crops group at Purdue University and specifically dedicated to the subject of new crops. There are over 250 subscribers to this electronic communication group.
The purpose of a listserver is to create a vehicle for rapid and easy communication over the Internet via Email. All subscribers to the system can communi-cate regularly with each other very cheaply.
Subscribers write in and ask questions, make announcements and raise issues for discussion. Each subscriber receives this information and can file it, reply to the specific individual or to all subscribers or delete it.
Basic information such as sourcing new germplasm or identifying those interested in a particular new crop can be handled quickly and easily through a listserver such as this.
Instructions on how to subscribe to (and unsubscribe from) New Crops LISTSERV are included at:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ListServ/easyform.html
There is a manual and a tutorial available through the New Crops LISTSERV giving detailed instructions. Being a subscriber is as simple as being an Email user.
There is also an Archive of the New Crops LISTSERV messages since November 1996 and this archive can be searched.
The article on New Crops marketing demonstrates the nature of some of the discussion that occurs.
The list of new crops which have been the subject of requests over the past few months demonstrates the range of interests among the subscribers.
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:
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