R&D projects
Discover nursery levy investments into Nursery Fund R&D initiatives
The nursery levy has been invested into following Hort Innovation Nursery Fund R&D initiatives, together with Australian Government contributions.
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Horticulture Impact Assessment Program 2023/24 to 2025/26 (MT24005)
Hort Innovation engages independent consultants to evaluate the impact of our R&D investments, providing insights into the type and magnitude of impacts that are being generated across the company’s strategic levy programs.
10 October 2024
Nursery industry consultation agreement (NY23002)
This project is supporting Australian nursery growers to have profitable, competitive, and sustainable businesses through sound investment of the nursery levy by Hort Innovation.
20 June 2024
Nursery industry environmental and technical research and extension 2008 to 2009 (NY08002)
This project provided a coordinated response to key environmental and technical issues that impact the sustainability of the Australian nursery industry.
5 May 2023
Validating water disinfestation systems in nursery production (NY21002)
This project is evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of current and alternative irrigation water disinfestation methods so that guidelines on their use can be provided to the Australian nursery industry.
19 April 2023
Nursery sustainability – undertaking a lifecycle assessment (NY22001)
This investment is developing a benchmarking tool for nursery growers to compare their environmental performance against industry-average benchmarks.
9 February 2023
Nursery industry communications program (NY22000)
This investment develops interest within greenlife businesses in the research, development, marketing, and extension projects funded by the nursery levy and encourages their participation in these projects for the direct benefit of their businesses, as well as for the wider benefit of the industry.
19 December 2022
Australian nursery industry communications program (NY18001)
This program ensured Australian nursery and garden growers and other industry stakeholders were kept up-to-date with the latest news, information and R&D and marketing updates to support decision-making within businesses
19 December 2022
Nursery usage and attitudes benchmark program (NY22200)
This project is benchmarking consumers’ attitudes and perceptions of the nursery category.
31 August 2022
Nursery industry conferences (NY21001)
This project sponsored the 2022 International Plant Propagators’ Society (IPPS) conference.
1 August 2022
Field-based testing for fall armyworm (MT19014)
This short investment conducted research to foster national collaboration in monitoring the movement of fall armyworm
1 June 2022