The week’s top stories (week ending 22/05/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- More restrictions on NT citrus as contagious citrus canker disease detected interstate (Lucy Marks and Neda Vanovac, ABC News)
- Regional communities praise migrant workers for keeping schools and shops open, amid calls for more arrivals (Brett Worthington, ABC Rural)
- Migrant support groups say proposed visa changes binding migrants to regional and rural areas ‘unfair’ (Sowaibah Hanifie, ABC Riverland)
- Death in the sun: Australia’s 88-day law leaves backpackers exploited and exposed (Anne Davies, The Guardian)
- WA growers inspect leafy vegetable trials at Gingin open day (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Foodie Tuesday: Veggies for Kids (Rafael Epstein, ABC Radio Melbourne)
- Getting growers export-ready (David Thomson, Growcom/North Queensland Register)
- Big gains to be hand in value-added vegetables, says Nuffield Scholar (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farmers gagged by big banks hope banking royal commission will uncover what they’re too scared to say (Marty McCarthy, ABC AM)
- How can Australian agriculture stay ahead of overseas competition? (RN Breakfast)
- Budget’s $20,000 write-off gets farmers pumped (Cally Dupe, The West Australian)
- Paddock to plate: Gascoyne Food Council’s push to get produce on restaurant plates within days of harvest (Michelle Stanley, WA Country Hour)
- National Farmers Federation meets with Bendigo stakeholders to workshop new ideas for agriculture (Tom O’Callaghan, Bendigo Advertiser)
- Victorian farmers call for action on rural crime following a spike in stock theft (Jess Davis, ABC Rural)
- No fruit goes to waste as strawberries, blueberries are successfully transformed into Cooloola Berries’ cider (Jennifer Nichols, QLD Country Hour)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 22 May 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!