Australia’s leading horticultural SmartFarm research facility is located in Tatura, enabling research and innovation to deliver high-quality fruit from orchard to export markets. The SmartFarm develop, use and demonstrate new applications of agricultural technology to achieve increases in marketable yield, product value and efficiency in pears, apples, stone fruit and almonds. One such innovation, which is used globally, was the Tatura Trellis – a close-planting system for tree fruits, in which trees are trained to form a V-shaped canopy. Through innovative farming techniques developed in Tatura, Victorian growers are poised to meet the exacting quality expectations of consumers in domestic and export markets.
