The week’s top stories (week ending 15/10/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:Green grape in latest needle tamper case
- Drought is GFC for the bush: Frydenberg (Mike Foley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Rural doctor shortage prompts calls for less red tape (Claudia Long, ABC AM)
- One in, all in to address our biosecurity requirements (Trevor Whittington, Farm Weekly)
- If you are under 34, you’ve experienced just one month of below average temperatures (Greg Jericho, The Guardian)
- Varroa mite menace remains global challenge to beekeepers (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Window closing to oppose axing of tax offset for regional and remote Australians (Rebecca Parish and Kelly Gudgeon, ABC Pilbara)
- Recycled rye straws an option to help environment and farmers in war on single-use plastics (Marty McCarthy, ABC SA Country Hour)
- First Australian farmer sues Monsanto, claiming Roundup caused his cancer (Jon Daly and Belinda Varischetti, ABC WA Country Hour)
- RoundUp court cases tainted Bayer, Monsanto merger, says boss (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Honda lashes out over ‘disappointing’ mandatory roll bar protection for quad bikes (Kath Sullivan and Lucy Barbour, ABC Rural)
- One in five Australians went hungry over past year, study finds (Luke Henriques-Gomes, The Guardian)
- Tasmanian poppy farmers are at the centre of the US opioid crisis, but they say they’re not to blame (Jessica Hayes, ABC Rural)
- National Party MPs call for more dams as states invest in other solutions to Australia’s water crisis (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- Vegetables and waste reduction take focus in National Nutrition Week (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- ‘Insect Armageddon’: Europe reacts to alarming findings about decline in insects (Eric Campbell, ABC Foreign Correspondent)