Keeping your vines safe during vintage – and all through the season – is vital. To make life easier, we’ve created a vintage toolkit, full of free tools focused on best practice farm-gate hygiene.
“Undertaking a set of site-specific biosecurity activities to minimise the risk of pest, disease and weed incursions on your property is a must,” said Vinehealth Australia Technical Manager Suzanne McLoughlin. “These farm-gate hygiene tools should be part of your standard operating procedures during vintage, and beyond.”
The toolkit consists of:
- New flowcharts for South Australia’s Plant Quarantine Standards to help you navigate the legal requirements of moving grapes, grape products, diagnostic samples, machinery, equipment and propagation material into SA;
- A new Fact Sheet for keeping your vines safe when visitors need to enter your vine rows;
- An updated Footwear and Small Hand Tool Disinfestation Protocol, with a handy user-guide;
- A Visitor Sign In Template;
- A Fact Sheet for employing international staff;
- A Naracoorte Heat Shed FAQ guide; and
- A reminder of our Exotic Pests poster.
The toolkit is included in this special VINTAGE issue of our e-news. Wishing you a smooth, successful and safe #v18.
