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25.01.2022 Young tissue culture palms thriving in this hot weather!

25.01.2022 Harvesting male date palm flowers! Male pollen is collected and then blown onto emerging female flowers to achieve a fruit set.

24.01.2022 Harvesting Medjool! Ideal growing conditions this season, hot and dry! Wonderful quality fruit!

24.01.2022 It was a great surprise and honour to have been nominated and awarded the Entrepreneur Award for 2019! A big thank you to Food SA, The Department of Trade, Tourism and Investment and also the MacGillivray family.

23.01.2022 Finished harvesting our pomegranates for the season!

23.01.2022 Lots of date palms going out at the moment from home garden orders to commercial plantations! Dont miss your opportunity of planting this season! Supplying Australia wide, exceptional quality plants from DPD Ltd - Date Palm Developments since 2004! For all enquiries please email [email protected]

23.01.2022 Dates at full size! Just starting to go yellow! Harvest approaching!

22.01.2022 Gurra Downs has recently been shortlisted for the South Australian Food Industry Awards. You can find our dates at Foodland Frewville and Pasadena!

21.01.2022 Just back from an awesome week long trip consulting for DPD (UK world leaders of date palm tissue culture plants) in Bangkok and regional Thailand travelling with DPD's Jane Chalk and Alastair Arnold from the UK. There is great excitement surrounding the emergence of a new date industry in Thailand. Thank you to everyone for showing us your farms and nurseries. Some really remarkable growth rates and yields from Barhee date palms. There's a lot to like about Thailand, not only about date production but also beautiful countryside and very friendly people. Thanks to DPD for inviting me to travel with Jane and Alastair.

21.01.2022 22 Years of growing date palms at Gurra Downs. We continue to import and supply new and existing growers with a range of internationally famous date palm varieties!

20.01.2022 Just finished harvesting our Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz vineyards! Should make a fine quality wine!

20.01.2022 Exciting results with some of our new varieties coming into production!

18.01.2022 2019 Vintage harvested! Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon wine grapes stood up well throughout the hot dry growing season! These grapes are made into wine for us which we sell as bulk and bottled wine!

17.01.2022 Showing Eddie and Koranit Wood through our oldest patch of Barhee date palms. They're from Thailand and also grow and distribute DPD tissue culture date palms! DPD Ltd - Date Palm Developments Tissue Culture Dates

16.01.2022 Getting stuck into harvesting our Barhee! Terrific quality fruit!

15.01.2022 Recently attended the 6th International Date Palm Conference in Abu Dhabi. Keeping up with the latest date palm technologies with fellow date farmer, Steve Kelly - Julimar Date Garden from Perth

13.01.2022 Decided to expand our pomegranate plantings! Weve been growing pomegranates for 15 years and our fruit makes it into Organic fruit shops around the country!

12.01.2022 Finished harvesting our pomegranates, now onto our dates!

12.01.2022 Finishing our first Barhee harvest for 2019! We will have another wave of fruit (weather permitting) in April, May and June! Register interest for fruit at [email protected]

11.01.2022 Closing date for applications for the 2019 Khalifa International Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation Awards has been extended until 31st December 2018. Dave and Anita Reilly as the Australian ambassadors for this award would like to encourage nominations from Australia.

10.01.2022 Our 'Wonderful' and 'Russian' pomegranate varieties currently in flower!

10.01.2022 Spent the past 6 weeks installing a new irrigation system and pump house for our Gurra Road property. Thanks to everyone involved with this project!

09.01.2022 Nearly finished putting on date sacks to protect fruit from birds and insects! Fruit sizing up quickly with the recent warm weather! Crop looking good!

09.01.2022 Autumn sunrise at Gurra Downs!

08.01.2022 Received a visit from SA Minister for Environment and Water - David Speirs and SA Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development - Tim Whetstone. Checking out the benefits of our joint SA funded projects.

08.01.2022 Gurra Downs - Best of the bunches from last season!

06.01.2022 Last week we started off September with -2 degrees Celsius which is typical Riverland conditions for this time of the year. Our palms are just beginning to push through flowers for this coming season.

06.01.2022 With Spring on the horizon, we are currently preparing nursery orders for dispatch. Gurra Downs sells tissue culture date palm plants originating from DPD Ltd - Date Palm Developments to customers Australia wide. We can supply single palms for the back yard right through to large scale commercial developments. Let us know your requirements so we can cater for your needs. We have lots of different varieties to choose from including a new release - Hayani which is an Egyptian red fresh date! For all enquiries please email [email protected]

05.01.2022 From the 30 varieties we are evaluating at Gurra Downs some have a tendency to provide 2 crops in a year. Photo shows recent flowering event plus fruit sizing up from an earlier out of season flowering event.

05.01.2022 Dave and Jess Reilly had a great day yesterday at the Trade Show at Murray Bridge showcasing our range of date and wine products. Thank you Regional Development Australia Murraylands and Riverland for your invitation to attend.

05.01.2022 2018 Barhee harvest drawing to a finish!

05.01.2022 Announcing the availability of Fard 4 male for sale. This has been a rewarding collaborative project between The Northern Territory Government - Arid Zone Research Institute Alice Springs and Gurra Downs. We were involved in exporting Fard 4 male, Glen Oliver male and Hayani offshoots to DPD Ltd - Date Palm Developments UK in 2015 where they were initiated on cultures and imported back into Australia by Gurra Downs. Recent pollination trials at AZRI identified Fard 4 as the pollen source of choice. See link below for pollination trial results. https://dpir.nt.gov.au//7/date-pollination-rd-findings.pdf

04.01.2022 Foggy morning at Gurra Downs!

04.01.2022 www.gurradowns.com.au Good news! Finally got to upgrade our website! Please feel free to check out some of the photos and information! Thank you to Kelsey!

03.01.2022 Top quality dates grown at Gurra Downs

03.01.2022 Introducing new packaging for our Gurra Downs Barhee dates!

03.01.2022 Autumn is a good time to plant date palms! We are sending out a few at the moment! Tissue culture and offshoots to help new entrants into the Australian date industry!

02.01.2022 Major irrigation expansion in progress linking our Gurra Downs farms together with a common line! 4kms of trenching and two new pump houses under construction. About to begin harvesting our dates!

01.01.2022 High quality Medjool dates available now! If you wish to purchase our dates please email [email protected]