The week’s top stories (week ending 09/07/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Strawberry farmers count the cost of dumping rain-damaged fruit (Jennifer Nichols and Jacqui Street, ABC Rural)
- Hort Connections awards: Vegetable exporter eclipses rivals (Karolin MacGregor, Tasmanian Country)
- Farm-invading vegan animal activists face new penalties (The Weekly Times)
- Native bee honey set to be officially recognised under food standard laws (Kerrin Thomas, ABC Mid North Coast)
- Roundup Row: The row over the world’s most popular weed-killer (ABC Landline)
- Corn grower declares war on waste by eliminating millions of single-use plastic trays (Joanna Prendergast, ABC WA Country Hour)
- Disgusted: ABC angers farmers with Four Corners Murray-Darling Basin report (Richard Ferguson, The Australian)
- How taxpayers are funding a huge corporate expansion in the Murray-Darling Basin (ABC Four Corners)