The week’s top stories (week ending 25/09/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- ‘Give them the money’: Calls for urgent action to fix drought relief scheme (Claudia Jambor and Anna Henderson, ABC Western Plains)
- Labour hire laws targeting workforce exploitation to be scrapped by SA Government (ABC News)
- Nats MPs kept in the dark over McCormack’s Asian farm visa idea (Ben Packham, The Australian)
- Ag visa discussion ongoing as summer harvest approaches (Kate Dowler, The Weekly Times)
- Deputy Prime Minister under threat amid bitter battle within federal National Party (Brett Worthington and Stephen Dziedzic, ABC News)
- Strawberry needle tampering crisis: Queensland growers call for ‘calm and common sense’ (Josh Bavas and staff, ABC News)
- Strawberry needle scare: Growers claim ‘hysteria’ is outrunning practicalities, risk management (David Claughton, Tom Major, Isabella Pittaway and Jennifer Nichols, ABC Rural)
- ‘I saw it coming’: Financial pressures blamed for strawberry sabotage (Alana Mitchelson, The New Daily)
- ANZ announces support package for customers impacted by fruit contamination (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Consumers rally behind farmers after strawberry needle scare (David Claughton and Jennifer Nichols, ABC Rural)
- Netherlands micro-green business Koppert Cres lead the way in innovation (Sarah Hudson, The Weekly Times)
- Is ag research in for a tinkering or an overhaul? (Shan Goodwin, Farm Online)
- Farmers in a town with annual rainfall of 981mm face a shortage of water for irrigation (Tyne Logan, WA Country Hour)
- Nuffield Farming Scholarships 2019 recipients named (The Weekly Times)
- Farm education investment in hope of future bumper crop of agricultural innovators (Peta Carlyon, ABC News)
- GFIA In Focus conference brings agtech innovation to Australia (Sharon O’Keeffe, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Embattled dairy farmer’s social post gets supermarkets to implement 10-cent drought levy on milk (Kim Honan, Jodie Gunders and Michael Condon, ABC Rural)
- Doomsday Vault needs to plug leak caused by climate change (Steven Schubert, ABC Alice Springs)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 25 September 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!