The week’s top stories (week ending 15/05/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Using flowering plants to protect Australian veggie crops from pests (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Breakthrough: Varroa-resistant bees a step closer (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Technology uses condensation and renewable energy to irrigate crops (Jon Daly, WA Country Hour)
- Australia not prepared for financial crisis, chair of peak body for company directors warns (ABC News)
- Farmers give the federal budget a “B” (Eddie Summerfield, 2GB)
- Young growers are key for future of horticulture (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Education key to getting more women into agriculture says former governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce (Amy McCosker, ABC Rural)
- Kiwi crisis: New Zealand changes visa rules to save bumper crop of national fruit (Eleanor Ainge Roy, The Guardian)
- Major supermarkets investigating worker claims of ‘slave’ conditions at major flower supplier (Tom Joyner, PM/ABC News)
- New market for WA grower sprouts in Korea (Jenne Brammer, The West Australian)
- Farmers adapt to dry conditions, with rainfall well below normal across southern Australia’s grain, sheep and cattle heartlands (Kit Mochan and Mark Bennett, ABC Rural)
- Potato Festival bares legacy of independent region (Mariam Koslay, Crookwell Gazette)
- Novice green thumb Steve Fritz smashes giant pump-kings at Ekka’s Giant Pumpkin Competition (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- SPC’s ProVital snares 2018 WorldStar Packaging Award for easy-open cup range (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Remote school serves up nutrition program for pupils (Tamra Carr, Midwest Times)
- Garlic grower urges consumers to buy local, quality produce to cut down on food waste (Jessica Schremmer, QLD Country Hour)
- USQ and John Deere working on agricultural technology (Farming Ahead)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 15 May 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!