Agronico’s expanded coolstore will hold almost 14 and a half thousand tonnes of potatoes, opening the service to more Tasmanian farmers. A 1.6 million federal government Regional Jobs & Investment Package Business Innovation Grant contributed...
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The roof is up on the new Agronico coolstore extension. When it’s finished there will be an additional 8 rooms which will be used by us and can be rented by other agri-businesses. Our coolstore expansion project is one of 50 projects to...
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The seed potatoes planting season is going well With Spring almost complete, we are almost finished our spring planting. We have a small window of about 6 weeks to get a large number of seed potatoes in the ground. It was great to get the...
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Final Preparations for the seed potato planting season With Spring almost upon us, we are in final preparations for our spring planting. We have a small window of about 6 weeks to get a large number of seed potatoes in the ground. Barry is...
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Well July has arrived and our team at Agronico are having some down time after a huge harvest. With over 10,000 tonnes of potatoes harvested, our new Coolstore was full to the brim in May. To plan for the future and ensure we always have enough...
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It’s harvest time at Agronico and the team are working overtime to ensure we are harvesting seed potatoes from the paddock into the coolstore as quickly as possible. The new AVR twin row harvester has been a hit with a huge increase in...
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At Agronico along with Seed Potatoes we also grow, harvest, grade and store onions during our off-season prior to the seed potato season. The last 2 weeks we have been harvesting and storing onions along with grading which will then go into our...
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Happy New Year Happy New Year from the team at Agronico. 2018 is going to be a bumper year for us with almost 9,000 tonnes of seed potatoes to be harvested in March-May. With planting successfully completed by early December, the fields are...
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This week our field team started planting seed potatoes (G1-G3) in DNA tested ground in the North of Tasmania. We DNA test all our soil using PREDICTA Pt. Reports are that the soil is very friable. Watch our planting video Agronico...
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With the potato seed coolstore officially opened for over 3 months now we have moved all of our potatoes in and we’ve noticed something very interesting. Our potatoes are giving off a lot more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The new...
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Yesterday, after 6 months building (and over 8 years in planning) over 60 of our customers, farmers and partners attended the launch of our new state of the art Agronico coolstore in Spreyton Tasmania. The coolstore will provide us with our own...
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Over the last few months, we have been working on creating the largest seed potato coolstore in Tasmania (and possibly the largest in Australia). Our friends at Bison constructions have been project managing the build and they have taken this...
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