The week’s top stories (week ending 13/11/18)
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 industry:
- Woman faces court over strawberry contamination (Shireen Khalil, The Weekly Times)
- Woolworths faces shareholder resolution on labour rights (Joanna Mather, Australian Financial Review)
- Adam Liaw headlines Hort Connections 2019 as early-bird registrations open (Mirage News)
- VFF goes it alone on surveys for horticulture’s workforce needs (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Will the Federal Government’s new visa scheme disadvantage Pacific Island workers? (Patricia Karvelas, RN Drive)
- NT mango farmer grows cassava for Pacific Islander workers (Matt Brann, NT Country Hour)
- Almost one in five Queensland workers likely victims of wage theft (Felicity Caldwell, Brisbane Times)
- Scott Morrison reverses Foodbank funding cuts amid community backlash (Brett Worthington and Clint Jasper, ABC News)
- Neonicotinoid insecticide causes bees to abandon their young at night: study (Anna Salleh, ABC Science)
- Red Cross expands drought grants to eastern Victorian farmers (Emma Field, ABC Gippsland)
- Water prices double, makes farmers think twice about profitability of crops (Nadia Isa, ABC Riverland)
- Fighting climate change: How emergency services are battling changing conditions (Kate Doyle, ABC News)
- Getting to know export markets imperative for Australian farmers (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- WA farming family the Della Vedovas turn spud exporters (Jenne Brammer, The West Australian)
- Farming Together: How primary producers are preparing for a challenging future (Liz Keen, ABC Coffs Coast)
- Program tackles Victorian backyard Q-Fly threat (Jeanette Severs, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Melbourne weather: How winds from the north and west create ‘change days’ (Belinda Smith, ABC News)
- The gender pay gap is narrowing, but women are still earning $25k less per year (Stephanie Chalmers and Tahlia Roy, ABC News)
International news:
- Netherlands: Canadian middleman swindles Gakon out of 550,000 euros (HortiDaily)
- Canada: A robot that lends a hand in greenhouses (University of Guelph)
- Canada: Organic farmer uses portable greenhouses to extend growing season (Tom Morrison, Chatham This Week)
- Canada: Five more salmonella cases in Western Canada linked to long English cucumbers (Glenda Luymes, The Kingston Whig Standard)
- Europe: Markets present plan to European Parliament (Mike Knowles, EuroFruit)
- United Kingdom: Budgens flies plastic-free flag (Tom Joyce, EuroFruit)
- USA: Study: Tomato Imports Lead to Billions Of Dollars, Thousands Of Jobs (Candace Manriquez Wrenn, Arizona Public Media)
- New Zealand: Horowhenua asparagus grower branches into strawberries to shore up staff (George Heagney)
- New Zealand: No workers, no fruit and veggies (Mike Chapman, Horticulture New Zealand)
- New Zealand + Australia: Delivering biosecurity benefit (Camellia Aebischer, Produce Plus)
- Singapore: SunMoon ‘digitalises’ Fuji apples (John Hey, AsaFruit)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 13 November 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!