The Department of Defence is currently undertaking a massive land grab of prime agricultural land near Townsville. From the scant information provided by Defence to date, it is understood that approximately 200,000 ha of mostly high-quality grazing land is to be taken, by compulsory acquisition if need be. This would more than double the size […]
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Banana growers ballot successful
The ABGC has today announced that that a ballot of Australian banana growers has backed an industry levy that will in part, fund the purchase of the Robson family’s banana farm. The Robson family are pleased that this key requirement for the sale to proceed, has been satisfied. Whilst there are a number of other […]
Panama disease property under conditional sale contract
It is now public knowledge that the Tully Valley banana farm infected by Panama Disease owned by the Robson family, is now under a contract for sale to the Australian Banana Growers Association Inc. 15 months after the detection of Panama Disease on the property, this remains the only confirmed outbreak of this disease in […]
End to discussions for sale of Panama disease property
The Robson family’s world changed on 9th March, 2015, when they took a call from Biosecurity Queensland. Samples taken from yellowing banana plants on their Tully Valley banana farm had tested positive to Tropical Race 4 (TR4). This is a soil borne variant of the Fusarium fungus that affects Cavendish bananas. There is no known […]