The week’s top stories (week ending 14/08/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- NSW Government says entire state in drought, new DPI figures reveal full extent of big dry (Joanna Woodburn, ABC News)
- Despite prophecies of doom, farmers can still succeed in a drought (Aaron Patrick, Australian Financial Review)
- Defying the drought: Farmers who have braced for the big dry (Marty McCarthy and Aneeta Bhole, Landline)
- Desperate farmers wait for drought relief dollars to filter down (Sue Neales, The Australian)
- Why does Australia waste its recycled water when it could be used to irrigate food crops? (Jess Davis, ABC Rural)
- Drought takes an emotional and physical toll across New South Wales (Caitlin Furlong and Jennifer Ingall, ABC New England)
- Farmers’ Federation calls for bipartisan support of National Energy Guarantee (Linda Mottram, ABC PM)
- Weak NEG target threat to farmers (Ebony Bennett, The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Mushroom grower ‘not knowingly involved’ in underpaying (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Landmark Monsanto payout over possible Roundup cancer link divides Australian farmers (Jess Davis and Eliza Borrello, ABC Rural)
- Monsanto owner Bayer calls weed killer ‘safe’ after jury orders big payout (AFP/The Weekly Times)
- Farmer numbers will continue to fall, says NFF president Fiona Simson (Aaron Patrick, Australian Financial Review)
- NFF president says agriculture still has no strategic plan (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- The changing face of farm ownership in north-west Tasmania (Fred Hooper and Margot Kelly, ABC Northern Tasmania)
- Simplot acquires licence for gene editing technology (Food Processing)
- Jessica’s IPM research rewarded with Hort Connections Researcher of the Year (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Apiary industry launches new code to fight potential billion-dollar biosecurity threats (Lucas Forbes, SA Country Hour)
- Stallholders call for CEO to step down after rental review (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- $20b food waste problem set to be tackled at Adelaide research centre (Elizabeth Anderson, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- ‘It is hard’: Business booming in regional areas but luring workers from city proves challenging (Charlotte King, ABC Ballarat)
- Qld fruit fly traps arrive for Sunraysia’s Spring (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 14 August 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!