The week’s top stories (week ending 17/07/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Australian-grown vegetables completely safe amid international recall (Matthew Russell, Fresh Plaza)
- Listeria death in Victoria linked to strain found in recalled frozen vegetables (ABC News)
- Frozen vegetables recall over fears of potential contamination not expected to generate consumer backlash (David Claughton, Amina Daniels and Michael Condon, NSW Country Hour)
- Phones offer translation tool for farm safety (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Safety not a foreign idea (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Fair Work Ombudsman case against Marland Mushrooms dismissed (Geoff Egan and Andrea Davy, The Weekly Times)
- Banks rebuff Government’s calls for drought offset accounts for struggling farmers (Anna Henderson and Marty McCarthy, ABC Rural)
- Basin Plan upwater recovery fund offers $1.5b to farmers, states (Mike Foley, Farm Online)
- Varroa destructor confirmed in a colony of bees in Port of Melbourne (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Biosecurity battle: Measures against yellow crazy ants succeeding (Kirili Lamb, The Weekly Times)
- SA fruit fly bins prompt rethink on Tasmania’s biosecurity (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, The Advocate)
- Is protecting Australia’s biosecurity a losing battle? (Philip Clark, ABC Nightlife)
- Biosecurity boost for Gladstone during ministerial visit (Matt Taylor, The Observer)
- Airline passengers could pay more to fly overseas (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Feedback sought on farm robot potential (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Murray-Darling Royal Commissioner Bret Walker accuses Federal Water Minister David Littleproud of ‘deplorable’ behaviour (Tony Shepherd, The Advertiser)
- Growers turn vegies to powder to reduce waste and meet demand for superfood craze (Tim Fookes, ABC Rural)
- Australia on a plate: recognising Indigenous rights to bush food (Alexandra Spring, The Guardian)
- Drought roundtable a good step towards better policy (Grant Maudsley, Queensland Country Life)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 17 July 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!