The week’s top stories (week ending 17/12/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Hort Connections 2020 heads to Brisbane (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- African swine fever outbreak simulation tests Australia’s biosecurity response plan (Daniel Fitzgerald and Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- Department of Agriculture flags changes to agricultural levy legislation (Sharron O’Keeffe, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- $66m African swine fever detection boost at Sydney and Melbourne airports, mail centres (Sarina Locke, ABC Rural)
- Australian potatoes explore Egypt (Liam O’Callaghan, Produce Plus)
- Tamborine Mountain school runs dry prompting calls for a ‘water emergency’ declaration (Bern Young, Jennifer Huxley and Charmaine Kane, ABC Gold Coast)
- Renewable energy boosting one farmer’s productivity as pilot program unveiled for central west NSW (Patrick Bell, ABC Western Plains)
- Agriculture Labour Advisory Committee elicits cool response from farmers, who say ag visas are needed (Emma Field, ABC Esperance)
- Water ministers meet to debate future of Murray-Darling Basin Plan today (Clint Jasper and Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC Rural)
- Drought not denting NSW farmland values as buyers scout property with promise of rain and water (ABC reporters, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Tasmanian farmer points the finger at electricity tariffs for dangerous working conditions (Hugh Hogan, ABC Tasmanian Country Hour)
- Fears of African swine fever reaching Australia rise, as Indonesia confirms outbreak (Jess Davis and Nikolai Beilharz, ABC Victorian Country Hour)