The week’s top stories (week ending 08/01/19)
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:
- Damaging [brown marmorated stink bug] discovered in Melbourne (Kate Dowler, The Weekly Times)
- WA potatoes headed east again (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farmers in Northern Territory left out of latest skilled migrant worker scheme despite high hopes (Dijana Damjanovic, ABC News)
- Trans-Pacific Partnership deal benefits tipped to flow to farmers (Kate Dowler, The Weekly Times)
- NSW drought: Prime ministers’ visits to region bring good and bad (Nadine Morton, Western Advocate)
- NFF call on an ‘all government’ drought policy to help farmers (Taylor Jurd, Daily Liberal)
- Drought-affected Queensland communities call for funding to keep them going (Cathy Van Extel, RN Breakfast)
- Senator Bridget McKenzie confronts drought at Alpha (Sally Cripps, North Queensland Register)
- Submission deadline looms for Lockyer Valley farmers (David Thomson, The Weekly Times/Growcom)
- Chat with James Kelly (Kelly Bros) on Country of Origin Labelling (Rachel Carbonell, ABC Country Breakfast)
- Veggies to feed hidden hunger (Mike Foley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Indigenous bush food ingredients give Christmas puddings an authentically Aussie twist (Sally Bryant, ABC Rural)
- Veganuary sees record numbers of people sign up to leave animal products off their plate for a whole month (Lucy Robinson, ABC South East SA)
- Bees and not honey are what natural beekeepers focus on (Kerrin Thomas, ABC Mid North Coast)
International news:
- Global: The best-read HortiDaily articles of 2018
- Europe: Resistance key for organic lettuce (Carl Collen, Eurofruit)
- UK: United Kingdom potato sales up to 2.2 million tonnes (AHDB Potatoes)
- UK: Fruits and veg ‘the most wasted Christmas food’ (Fred Searle, Fresh Produce Journal)
- UK: Berry craze sees fruit overtake vegetables in shoppers’ baskets (Katie Morley, The Telegraph)
- USA: CAES student finds space to grow (Merritt Melancon, University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)
- USA: Genetically modified ‘shortcut’ boosts plant growth by 40% (Matt McGrath, BBC News)
- USA: RPET clamshells provide clarity for organic herb line (Jim Butschli, Packaging World)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 8 January 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!