The week’s top stories (week ending 20/08/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Branding cheese as feta and gruyere may be banned in Australia under EU deal (Sarah Martin, The Guardian)
- NT senator and former vet Sam McMahon unloads on activists at farm hearing (Matt Garrick, ABC News)
- Water market probe to tackle the big issues, but can it deliver? (Mike Foley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Tough road towards ag’s $100 billion goal, ABARES tells Regional Conference (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- New 15-part series shines spotlight on nation’s farming women (Hayley Warden, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Lockyer Valley farmers win vital water fight (Charlie Peel, The Australian)
- South Australian AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award finalists discuss their projects (Cassandra Hough, ABC SA Country Hour)
- Water, it’s our dam shame (Ean Higgins, The Australian)
- What does Brexit mean for agriculture? (Warwick Long, ABC Victorian Country Hour)
- Government dragging its heels on phoenixing crackdown, critics say (Paul Karp, The Guardian)
- South Australia seeks to lift ban on mainland GM crops, Kangaroo Island to remain GM-free (Isabella Pittaway & Cassandra Hough, ABC SA Country Hour)
- Farmers kicking dust with shattered hopes for summer crops (Toni Ambrogetti, The Australian)