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[On-line Issue 14 will become available through 2002]

Issue 1 (January, 1994) [To Issue 2]
  1. Editorial
  2. What is a New Crop?
  3. New Crops: Development and application of improved selection and evaluation procedures to produce new crops for northern Australia
  4. Success factors in the development of new agricultural industries
  5. Industrial Crops Think Tank
  6. Listing of Potential New Crops for Australia: publication available
  7. Success factors in the development of new agricultural industries: publication available

 

Issue 2 (July, 1994) [To Issue 3]
  1. Editorial
  2. A Tasmanian Model for New Crop Assessment
  3. Commercial-in-Confidence: handling confidential partnerships
  4. Football Teams and New Crops
  5. Crop Profiles
    1. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)
    2. Pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariaefolium)
    3. Nashi Fruit (Pyrus pyrifolia)
    4. Sandalwood (Santalum spp.)
    5. Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
  6. The Jamestown Agricultural Diversification Project
  7. Researcher Profile: Dr John Gladstones
  8. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  9. New Crop Publications
  10. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  11. New Appointment: New Crops Project: Mr Greg Ferguson
  12. New Crop Electronic Bulletin Board

 

Issue 3 (January, 1995) [To Issue 4]
  1. Editorial
  2. Survey of the Australian Readership of the Australian New Crops Newsletter
  3. New Crop Studies in Israel
  4. The Trials of New Crop R&D: Getting the Germplasm
  5. Marketing of New Crops: Background
  6. Researcher Profile: Tim Denny
  7. Summary of Two International New Crop Conferences Recently Held in Argentina
  8. Letter to the Editors
  9. Crop Profiles
    1. Olives (Olea europaea)
    2. LINOLA (Linum usitatissimum)
    3. Tea (Camellia sinensis)
  10. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  11. New Crop Publications
  12. New Crop Periodicals
  13. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  14. PC-GRIN Germplasm Database

 

Issue 4 (July, 1995) [To Issue 5]
  1. Editorial
  2. Experience of the Essential Oils of Tasmania Company in Developing New Crops
  3. Evaluation of Alternative Pulses in South Australia
  4. DYOR (Do Your Own Research)
  5. Australian Wild Herbs and the Bushfood Industry
  6. The Australian Native Bushfoods Industry Committee
  7. The Australian Native Foods Industry
  8. Usefulness of Neem Extract in Tropical Pest Control
  9. Market-Driven Approach to New Crop Selection
  10. Survey of Extension Activity in New Crops In Australia
  11. The Profitability of Government Funding of New Crops R&D
  12. Postgraduate Research in Australia on New Crops Research and Development
  13. Letters to the Editors
  14. Crop Profiles
    1. Longan (Euphoria longan)
    2. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)
    3. Hemp (Cannabis sativa) in Tasmania
    4. Hemp (Cannabis sativa) in South Australia
    5. Cynara 507 (Cynara cardunculus)
    6. Kakadu Plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana)
  15. Researcher Profile: Mike Titley and the Introduction of Continuous Broccoli Production in the Lockyer Valley
  16. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  17. New Crop Publications
  18. New Crops Periodicals
  19. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  20. Listing of New Crop Research and Development Projects funded by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation during the period 1993-95
  21. Thesis Summaries
    1. Genetic variation in Morama bean (Tylosema esculentum), Brian Monaghan
    2. Characterization, collection and conservation of Cocos nucifera L. in the South Pacific, Dr Geoffrey Ashburner
    3. Variation and breeding of Tea Tree with particular reference to oil production, Dr Penny Butcher
    4. Genetic variation of Eucalyptus polybracta, R. James
    5. Comparative performance of cuttings and seedlings of Blue Mallee when grown for oil production, M. Parsons
  22. Computer Resources for New Crops

 

Issue 5 (January, 1996) [To Issue 6]
  1. Editorial
  2. Culinary Beans: A case study in the commercialisation of a new crop
  3. Edible Indigenous Nuts in PNG: their potential for commercial development
  4. Australian Bushfoods as a Model for Ecologically Sustainable Development
  5. Prospects for Asparagus in Northern Western Australia
  6. Asparagus Production in Western Samoa
  7. The Trials of New Crop R&D: Black Death in New Crops
  8. Asian Vegetable Research in NSW
  9. The Use of New Crops in Education
  10. Letters to the Editors
  11. Crop Profiles
    1. Rice flower
    2. The production and potential of dates in Australia
  12. Researcher Profile: Dr Vong Nguyen
  13. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  14. New Crop Publications
  15. New Crop Periodicals
  16. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  17. New Crops Software
  18. Directory of New Crop Workers in Australia, First Edition

 

Issue 6 (July, 1996) [To Issue 7]
  1. Editorial
  2. Why Olives?
  3. Essential Oil Research in Tasmania
  4. Carob Bean (Ceratonia siliqua)
  5. Herb Growers South East Queensland: a start-up experience
  6. Australian Ginseng: the paddock or the bush?
  7. The Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialisation Centre (USA) (AARC)
  8. New Crops and Crop Improvement: using new crops to help students learn the principles of crop improvement
  9. Agricultural Fact Sheets on CD-ROM
  10. Scarce Tools for Research Evaluation
  11. Survey of Neem Plantings in Australia
  12. Exotic and Asian Produce, Flemington Markets
  13. Dr Lennox Davidson (1914-1996)
  14. Letters to the Editors
  15. Crop Profiles
    1. Ginseng (Panax spp.)
    2. Licorice: an absolutely delicious crop
    3. Pinus pinea: an edible nut pine of many uses
    4. Sweet basil (Ocimum spp.)
  16. Developer Profile: Jim Hughes, Ord River Irrigation Area, Western Australia
  17. Conference Reports
  18. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  19. New Crop Publications
  20. New Crop Periodicals
  21. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops

 

Issue 7 (January, 1997) [To Issue 8]
  1. Editorial
  2. Regional Development
  3. Regional Development in Central Queensland
  4. Book Review: Ripples in the Zambezi, by Ernesto Sirolli
  5. Problems encountered in using conventional economic analyses in the choosing of new crops
  6. The Queensland Agricultural Journal as a New Crops knowledge source
  7. The Role of Agricultural Engineering in the Development of New Crops
    1. Mechanising Coffee Harvesting in Australia
    2. Development of the Williames Hi-Tech International Tea Harvester
  8. Australian Native Bushfood Industry: Update
  9. Australian New Crops Association
  10. New Crop Options Day
    1. Pulse Australia
    2. Culinary soybeans
    3. Marketing of pulses - new crops
    4. Australian herb industry: import replacement - export potential
    5. Ausbud
    6. Community support for new crops
    7. A grower initiative
    8. Grower-initiated marketing
    9. New Crops - The New Zealand experience
  11. Letters to the Editors
  12. Press Release: Hungarian condiment paprika
  13. Carob Agroforestry in Portugal and Spain
  14. Report of the outcomes of the New Crops Workshops
    1. Grain Legumes Workshop
    2. Oilseeds Workshop
    3. Aromatic, Spice, Medicinal and Bioactive Crop Workshop
    4. Industrial and Fibre Crops Workshop
    5. Fruit and Nuts Workshop
    6. Cereals and Pseudocereals Workshop
    7. Vegetables Workshop
    8. New Crops for North-eastern Australia Workshop
  15. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  16. New Crop Publications
  17. New Crop Periodicals
  18. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  19. Internet Addresses
  20. Cost of Production of the Australian New Crops Newsletter
  21. Workshop Facilitators' Outline
  22. The DOOR Manual for plant nurseries: publication available
  23. Supplement to Issue 7
    1. Australian New Crops Association
    2. First Australian New Crops Conference

 

Issue 8 (July, 1997) [To Issue 9]
  1. Editorial
  2. Sourcing New Crop Information
  3. DOOR-Marketing (Do Our Own Marketing Research)
  4. Regional Development in the Outback
  5. Regional Development Today
  6. New Crops LISTSERV
  7. New Crops Marketing on the LISTSERV
  8. New Crop Requests from the New Crops LISTSERV
  9. Food Brokering
  10. Monitoring Research Activity in Specific New Crops
  11. Crop Profiles
    1. Useful Plants in the Malvaceae Family
    2. Putting the "Australian" into Water Chestnuts
    3. Echinacea angustifolia in South East Queensland
    4. Beach plum (Prunus maritima)
  12. Conference Report: Bringing Asian Vegetables into One Basket
  13. New Crop Research Projects
  14. New Crop Publications
  15. New Crop Periodicals
  16. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  17. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  18. Listing of Potential New Crops for Australia, including numbers of publications worldwide: publication available
  19. RIRDC Compendium of New and Emerging Industries: publication available
  20. The Development Processes of New Industries: National Conference

 

Issue 9 (January, 1998) [To Issue 10]
  1. Editorial
  2. Diversification: an Innovative Farmer's Experience
  3. The New Industries Program of Agriculture Western Australia
  4. New Crops: How should we approach the problem of choosing which new crops to commercialise?
  5. New Crops: Choosing new crops by the systems approach
  6. New Crops: Thirteen steps for the commercialisation of new crops
  7. New Crops: Criteria check list
  8. The Trials of New Crops R&D: Research
  9. New Crops Investment Schemes
  10. Marketing Adventures with "Seedless" Watermelons
  11. The DOOR Way Open to Future Research: Progress to date
  12. AgriInfonet for Exporters
  13. Helpful Web Sites Mentioned in the AgriInfonet Newsletters
  14. Ghoti (pronounced gh as in enough; o as in women and ti as in nation)
  15. Letters to the Editors
  16. Messages from the Purdue New Crops LISTSERV
  17. Australian Bushfood Industry Groups
  18. Researcher Profile: Ian Wood
  19. Crop Profiles
    1. Sauropus androgynus (Sweet leaf bush)
    2. Moringa oleifera (the kelor tree)
  20. New Crop Publications
  21. New Crop Periodicals
  22. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  23. New Rural Industries 1998: New Industries Development
  24. New Crops and New Uses: Biodiversity and Agricultural Sustainability
  25. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  26. Australian Bushfood Industry
  27. New Crop Inquiries
  28. New Crop Web Sites
  29. Internet Search Engines

 

Issue 10 (July, 1998) [To Issue 11]
  1. Editorial
  2. The Appeal of New Industries
    1. Company Essentials
    2. Primary Production Investment Schemes
    3. Livestock Investment Schemes
    4. Horticultural and Forestry Investment Schemes
    5. Australian Securities and Investments Commission Business Centres

     

    Employers/Commerce

     

    Consumer Affairs Offices
  3. New Miracle Plant from the Kalahari Desert: Demonstration of new crops 'hype'
  4. Emerging Opportunities in Agriculture Conference, Harden, October 1997
  5. Do Our Own Marketing Research for New Crops
    1. DOOR Marketing Manual
    2. The Aims of DOOR Marketing
    3. The Learning Approach behind DOOR Marketing
    4. Contents of the DOOR Marketing Manual
    5. Personal Responses to the DOOR Marketing Workshops
    6. DOOR Marketing: Priorities as viewed by the participants
  6. Information Supermarket
  7. DPI's Prime Notes Version 5 CD-ROM
  8. Information Services: AusIndustry
  9. Infosearch
  10. Break-Even Analysis
  11. Business and Farm Planning and New Crops
  12. Future Profit Workshops
  13. What is a Cooperative?
  14. Multi-level Land Use: Creative resource use for rural Australia
  15. A Vision for Inglewood Olive Growers Association and for the Olive Industry
  16. Issues with Planning Bushfood Plantings
  17. The Trials of New Crop Development: Using computers
  18. The Samuel and Eileen Gluyas Churchill Fellowship: To study the effects of Plant Breeders' Rights on the breeding of new cultivars of herbage species
  19. Potential new crops which have attracted inceased interest in the world literature recently
  20. Analgesic Plants
  21. Crop Profiles
    1. Australian Native Citrus: Wild limes from the rainforest to the desert...
    2. Kenaf: The forgotten fibre crop
    3. Native or Mountain Pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata)
    4. Oil Palm (Elais guineensis)
    5. Kakadu Plum (Terminalia ferdinaniana)
    6. Argan (Argania spinosa)
    7. Taro (Colocasia antiquorum fontanesii)
  22. Developer Profile: The Lentil Company
  23. The Niche Marketing of Australian TLC Lentils: A model for other pulse crops
  24. Letters to the Editors
  25. Victoria's New Specialised Rural Industries Strategic Plan
  26. Research in New Crops
  27. New Crop Publications
  28. New Crop Periodicals
  29. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  30. New Rural Industries 1998: Advancing Innovation
  31. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  32. New Crop Inquiries
  33. New Crop Web Links
  34. New Crops LISTSERV
  35. Listing of New Crops Publications

 

Issue 11 (January, 1999) [To Issue 12]
  1. Editorial
  2. Critical Success Factors and Strategic Issues in New Agricultural Enterprises
  3. Hydroponic Herb Production as a New Industry
  4. Will Your New Venture Pay? Risk Management
  5. Mapping a Risk Profile
  6. Establishing New Crop Industries: Alternative approaches
  7. Entering the Herb Industry
    1. Herb growing consultants
    2. Herb seed suppliers
    3. Overseas herb seed suppliers
    4. Herb references
  8. Eucalyptus torquata, Eucalyptus saligna, Eucalyptus forrestiana, Banksia spp.
  9. Herb Raw Materials Currently Used in Manufacturing in Australia
  10. Survey of Readers of the Australian New Crops Newsletter
  11. Technology Protection System or Terminator Gene?
  12. The Hot 50 Farm Marketing Tips; from 'Sell What You Sow' by Eric Gibson
  13. Commercialisation of New Crops
  14. Letters to the Editors
  15. Communications via Email and the Newcrops LISTSERV
  16. Crop Profiles
    1. Stevia rebaudiana (Sweet Honey Leaf)
    2. Ramie: The different bast fibre crop
    3. Pitaya (Hylocereus undatus): A potential new crop for Australia
    4. Edible Australian Acacias: A new/old food for semi-arid zones
    5. Cleome gynandra (Cat's whiskers)
    6. Matricaria recutita (German chamomile)
    7. Ginseng in Australia
    8. Putting Sense Back into Industrial Hemp
    9. Vegetable Amaranth Improvement for South Africa
  17. New Crops and Oilseeds from Ethiopia and Elsewhere
  18. Emerging Opportunities in Agriculture, Tamworth, October 1998
    1. Pulses-Product Development
    2. Navy Beans
    3. Faba Beans in Northern New South Wales
    4. Essential Oils for the Northern Slopes and Tablelands of New South Wales
    5. The Olive Industry
    6. Farm Forestry in Northern NSW
    7. Paulownia, An Emerging Forestry Opportunity
    8. Carbon Credits and Carbon Trading
    9. Adzuki Bean
    10. Lentils
    11. Sustainable Fibre Research
    12. Networking in the Horticultural Industry
    13. Risk Management
    14. Marketing Horticultural Products
  19. The Big Grain Day, Emerald, Queensland, August 1999
  20. Contacts for New Industry Activities, Agriculture Western Australia
  21. Conference Reports
    1. New Rural Industries 1998, Advancing Innovation
    2. Positive Outcomes for New Rural Industries
    3. Recent Developments in Acacia Planting
  22. Developer Profile: Christopher Dean, Thursday Plantation Laboratories Ltd
  23. Bushfood Research Funded by RIRDC
    1. RIRDC Bushfood Marketing Research Update
    2. Food Safety of Australian Bushfoods
    3. Bushfood Industry Database
  24. Research Paper
    1. Maximising freshness but minimising micobial food safety hazards in fresh bamboo shoots, Dr Volker Kleinhenz
  25. Thesis Summaries
    1. The influence of leaf canopy on seed and gum yield of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba [L.] Taub.), Dr Helen Murphy
    2. Improvement of papaya (Carica papaya L.) for South-east Queensland: investigations of sex-type and fruit quality, Dr Songpol Somsri
    3. New crops potential of Queensland-grown Geranium (Pelargonium hybrid) for essential oil, Dr Luigino Doimo
  26. New Crop Publications
  27. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  28. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops
  29. Bushfood and Related Groups and their Contacts
  30. New Crop Inquiries
  31. New Crop Web Links and Listservers
  32. Abbreviated Directory of New Crops Workers in Australia

 

Issue 12 (July, 1999)
  1. Editorial
  2. The global marketplace: innovation, information and opportunities
  3. There are thirteen steps to heaven
  4. New Export Markets For Asian Vegetables
  5. Developing Successful Niche Agribusiness Exports
  6. Trees on Farms - and Bushfoods
  7. The Value Chain in the Native Australian (Bush) Food Industry

    8. 1. Analysing the Value Chain(s) of the Native Australian (Bush) Food Industry

    2. Investigating and Planning the Establishment of a Producer Network in the Native Australian (Bush) Food Industry

    3. Developing Suitable Collaborative Relationships within the Native Australian (Bush) Food Industry

  8. Notes from a Trade Seminar, 'Food Opportunities: Looking West to Europe'
  9. Marketing And Product Development Of Bamboo Products Within Australia
  10. The commando guide to unconventional marketing and advertising tactics
  11. Getting Together - Common Marketing Strategies
  12. DOOR Marketing (Do Our Own Research Marketing for New Industries)
  13. Queensland Central Highlands Development
  14. The case for 'synthetic' varieties of new crops
  15. Letters and emails to the editor
  16. Emails through New Crops LISTSERV, Purdue
  17. Oz Rural Web Site
  18. Department of Natural Systems and Environment Victoria Web Site
      1. Asian vegetables
      2. Bramble fruit
      3. Buckwheat
      4. Caraway oil
      5. Carob
      6. Cold pressed oils
      7. Coriander seed production
      8. Crambe
      9. Essential oils
      10. Ginseng
      11. Jojoba
      12. Lavender oil
      13. Medicinal herbs
      14. Olives
      15. Pyrethrum
      16. Rice flower
      17. Tea-tree oil
  19. Specialty and Minor Crops Handbook
  20. USDA Risk Management Agency, Risk and Evaluation Divisions
      1. Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus)
      2. Bramble fruits (blackberries, raspberries, and hybrids (or genetic combinations) of the two crops belonging to Rubus spp.)
      3. Crambe
      4. Christmas trees
      5. Mint
      6. Nut trees
      7. Olives
      8. Sweet Potatoes
      9. Red tart cherry (Prunus cerasus)
      10. Turfgrass Sod
      11. Wild rice
  21. Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius syn. Polymnia sonchifolia)
  22. The Australian Tea Tree Oil Industry
  23. QA is needed for medicinal herbs
  24. Slick Oil Merchants
  25. Tuesday 16 March 1999
  26. Allocating Resources for Research and Development Between and Within New Rural Industries
  27. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Full Research Reports
  28. Diversification - WHY? HOW?
  29. Breeding New Crops
  30. Social constructivism and the commercialisation of new rural industries
  31. New Crop Publications
  32. Herbs Australia newsletter
  33. New Crop Conferences
  34. New Crop Organisations
  35. New Crop Enquiries
  36. New Crop Web Links
  37. Software
  38. New Crop Presentations
  39. Press releases

On-line Issue 14 (2002)

  1. International New Crop Development January 2002 (Dr Rob Fletcher)
  2. International New Crop Development Presentation January 2002 (Dr Rob Fletcher)

 

 

 

 

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