The week’s top stories (week ending 24/04/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Chemical treatment of imported seeds could become mandatory and the organic industry is not happy (Renee Cluff, ABC Rural)
- Fruit fly larvae still being found at infected sites but control measures halt the spread: Biosecurity Tasmania (Caitlin Jarvis, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- DPIPWE lifted suspension on Victorian produce treatment facility (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Money wasted in rush to control fruit fly outbreak in Tasmania, Labor says (Ellen Coulter, ABC News)
- Summer mango fruit fly incursions lead to tougher SA import restrictions (Renee Cluff, ABC Rural)
- Pesky problem: Bundy pilot program to tackle fruit fly issue (Tahlia Stehbens, NewsMail)
- [Biosecurity] risks need to be prioritised from Crookwell-Goulburn rail project: AUSVEG (Mariam Koslay, Crookwell Gazette)
- Disease that wiped out thousands of citrus crops in Queensland detected in the Northern Territory (Tom Maddocks, ABC News)
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Condamine Alluvium irrigators return half their underground water to environment (Cassandra Hough, ABC Rural)
- Liquid fertiliser study finds less harmful nitrogen run-off to Great Barrier Reef (Tom Major and Lara Webster, ABC Rural)
- How Australian growers can take advantage of the ATO’s instant asset write-off (Felicity Turner, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- $16 million to target [vegetable] diseases (Dominic Elsome, The Chronicle)
- Seasonal work: Australians picky on jobs (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- The future of Australian jobs? It might surprise you… (Ross and John, 3AW)
- Asparagus could be the answer for quarantined north Queensland property (Tom Major, Queensland Country Hour)
- Littleproud calls for fast food country of origin labelling (Colin Bettles, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Southwest Victorian fires: Farmer recovery grants available (The Weekly Times)
- Help offered: Weather damage funds could help Bundy farmers (NewsMail)
- Bowmans Murmungee’s big appetite for giant pumpkins at award-winning event (Shana Morgan, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 24 April 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!