In only his second year of growing poppies Will Gibson at Native Point, Perth, has hit the jackpot with a quality paddock of the Eve variety that has produced the second highest reading of Oripavine in the midlands and south (zone 2), coming in less than a kilo per hectare behind a winning crop from Nick Mills at Panshanger Estate, Cressy.

Tasmania’s fruit, berry and seed crops are at risk if Varroa mite infiltrates the state, due to a reliance on feral honey bees for pollination.