The week’s top stories (week ending 20/03/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Seasonal Worker Programme embraced in Far North (North Queensland Register)
- Vegetable industry unites to address Diamondback moth (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Rockmelon listeria: Rombola Family Farms named as source of outbreak (David Claughton, Bellinda Kontominas and Tyne Logan, ABC Rural)
- BASF to buy [Bayer] assets in new seed deal (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Digital officer backs up the human side of Auckland airport biosecurity (Peter Dinham, iTWire)
- Fires southwest Victoria: Cash for victims; fodder drive underway (Kath Sullivan, The Weekly Times)
- Alerts questioned as Vic bushfires ease (AAP/9 News)
- Drought in far west NSW strikes farmers, sporting events and Indigenous community (Sofie Wainwright, Angela Bates and Rebekah Lowe, ABC Broken Hill)
- Consistent, united Aussie branding should be an ag trade priority: KPMG (Andrew Marshall, Farm Online)
- Asian trade expert questions “Taste Australia” strategy (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Ag’s $100b goal at risk without supersized infrastructure push (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Coulton sounds warning about 60pc Indian chickpea tariff “grief” (Colin Bettles, North Queensland Register)
- Tasmania’s bee surveillance program helping keep world population healthy (Carol Rääbus and Rhiannon Shine, ABC Radio Hobart)
- New heavy vehicle road rules a major win for [Victorian] farmers (Daron Jacks, The Weekly Times)
- Sydney’s housing demand is swallowing farms on the harbour city’s fringes (Philippa McDonald, ABC News)
- Land clash: Farmers battle urban creep with ‘right to farm’ legislation (Tom Nancarrow and Sowaibah Hanifie, ABC Rural)
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity on the rise as research exposes dangers (Jess Davis, Vic Country Hour)
- Surviving and thriving: storytelling initiative gives new platform to women in the bush (Jess Davis, ABC Rural)
- Voice of Horticulture asks members to check sexual harassment and bullying policies (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- How one family uses biodynamic farming to rejuvenate weathered Australian soil (Penny Travers, ABC Radio Canberra)
- When ethical and local means something else (Shan Goodwin, Stock & Land)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 20 March 2018.