The week’s top stories (week ending 30/01/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Adult fruit flies found on Flinders Island, growers urge ‘gelignite’ response (ABC News)
- Fruit fly alert: What you can and can’t do in Tasmania’s north-west control zones (Harriet Aird and Ros Lehman, ABC News)
- Fruit fly financial help on offer to growers caught up in control zones (ABC News)
- Calls for disaster funding rethink after devastated farmers miss out (Kallee Buchanan and Jess Lodge, ABC Rural)
- Hort’s performance worth watching as avocados smash records (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- World first greengrocer qualifications now available (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Potential new Panama disease outbreak in Australia’s biggest banana region (Casey Briggs, ABC News)
- Littleproud meets with NFF boss in Canberra (Tobi Loftus, Warwick Daily News)
- Foreign ownership: More detail needed, NFF says (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Braidwood farmers struggle with drought as dams dry up (Jordan Hayne, ABC News)
- ‘Low standard’ quarantine protocols probed in blueberry rust hearing (Rob Inglis, The Advocate)
- Woolworths and Coles cave in to pressure to abandon product accused of killing bees (Alana Mitchelson, The New Daily)
- CSIRO genetic tech breakthroughs changing the sector (Kristy Moroney, Farming Ahead)
- Mini fruit and vegetables grow SA Produce Market share for supermarket aisles (The Advertiser)