TASMANIAN blueberry growers have been dealt a blow with a new detection of fungal disease blueberry rust. The detection comes after an all-clear for the pest was declared last month when it was ...

Last year in a report from the Legislative Council’s Blueberry Rust in Tasmania inquiry, one of the ten recommendations was that Biosecurity Tasmania take action to eradicate blueberry rust from the ...

The Upper House inquiry will look at the handling of the fungal disease in outbreaks since 2014. Growers had been pushing for an inquiry since the state’s strategy changed from the initial policy of ...