The week’s top stories (week ending 24/07/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- NAB to stop charging drought-affected farmers penalty interest rates for missed repayments (Elysse Morgan, ABC News)
- Farmers don’t want drought handout says NFF president (Gregor Heard, Queensland Country Life)
- Climate change bearing down on native potato crops (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Not a farmer’s wife (Emily Clark, ABC News)
- We won’t get the cherry on top with our policies (Alan Kohler, The Australian)
- Melbourne’s food bowl at risk as housing developments take over farms, report says (Jess Davis, ABC Rural)
- Rising population with decreasing farmland a real concern (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Calls for review of Victorian rates as regional councils struggle to make ends meet (Dominic Cansdale, ABC Ballarat)
- Victorian Election 2018: Farmers lobby for billions in extra funding as politicians court rural voters (Stephanie Anderson, ABC News)
- [Victorian state] opposition says it’ll bring in a dedicated rural crime and livestock squad (Andrew Miller, Stock & Land)
- NSW Nationals back national labour hire licensing scheme (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Boost for melons after listeria outbreak (Dominica Sanda, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- ‘I love my farmer’: Facebook post’s call to share positive images of farmers goes viral, amid live export debate (Tyne Logan, WA Country Hour)
- Australian farming robot trialled in Fiji amid food shortage crisis (Ruby Mitchell, NSW Country Hour)
- Ladybirds are not fans of AC/DC and farmers should take note (Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- Senator Steve Martin promotes local produce amid imported frozen vegetable scare (Lachlan Bennett, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Kurrawong Organics’ broccoli powder is a new super food (Bradley Jurd, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- HFF Conference covers plenty of ground (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Conference to meet thirst for biological farming information (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- How bio-control and pesticides could work together in the future (Lucy Kinbacher, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Mango box that transformed Australia’s horticulture industry wins innovation award (Matt Brann and Kristy O’Brien, ABC News)
- Separating ripe and unripe fruit eases the squeeze on avocados in supermarkets, resulting in higher sales (Renee Cluff, ABC News)
- Queensland family farm producing rosella hibiscus products and providing jobs for locals (Jennifer Nichols, ABC Landline)
- Keeping up with the Piedimontes (Margaret Burin, ABC News)
- New ‘curated’ store Woolworths wants you to shop at three times a day (Benedict Brook, news.com.au)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 24 July 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!