The week’s top stories (week ending 03/04/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- New Horticulture Code of Conduct comes into full effect (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- NFF survey: Agriculture’s workforce woes continue (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Tropical Cyclone Iris stirs off north Queensland coast as category two system (ABC News)
- Cyclone Debbie one year on: ‘We’ve lost everything, but we’re alive’ (Sophie Meixner, Lara Webster, Rachel Riga and Tom Major, ABC Tropical North)
- Consumers urged to buy blemished apples to support storm-impacted SA growers (Tom Nancarrow, ABC Rural)
- Women gather to celebrate their role in horticulture (Joely Mitchell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Murray Darling Basin Plan: SA pushes for seat at water talks (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Employers reminded to count employees and get ready for Single Touch Payroll (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Strong interest grows in new Adama nematicide, Nimitz (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Barnaby Joyce’s push for Armidale relocation of pesticides regulator sees staff exodus (Dan Conifer and Michael McKinnon, ABC News)
- Regional Investment Corporation: Bank of Barnaby held up (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Urban farming to help feed our world and minds, says Vydra (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Darwin inventor turning manure into fertiliser, with aim of solving global food crisis (Matt Brann, NT Country Hour)
- Reporters turned mountain pepper farmers are on a potential path to prosperity (Penny Travers, ABC Radio Canberra)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 3 April 2018.