The week’s top stories (week ending 20/02/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Moree irrigators urge NSW Government to reconsider withdrawing from Murray-Darling Basin Plan (Dominique Schwartz, ABC Rural)
- Political foes hope $13 billion river plan can be saved (Nicole Hasham, Sydney Morning Herald)
- Murray-Darling plan on brink of collapse as changes shot down in Senate (Myles Morgan, SBS News)
- Fruit fly fumigation halted after Tasmanian biosecurity workers fall ill (Rhiannon Shine, ABC News)
- Fruit fly fears downplayed, as Biosecurity Tasmania says single insect found outside zone no cause for alarm (ABC News)
- Tropical Cyclone Kelvin weakens, but heavy flooding cuts off Great Northern Highway (Sarah Collard, Rebecca Trigger & Graeme Powell, ABC News)
- Tasmanian berry growers fear spotted wing drosophila is on its way (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Thousands of jobs at risk after ships with stink bugs onboard turned away from NZ ports (NZ Herald)
- Tasmanian growers get more from seasonal worker labour force (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Growers urged to get HARPS-ready now (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Health data reveals shocking veggie stats for children (Sean Teuma, Warwick Daily News)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 20 February 2018.