The week’s top stories (week ending 28/01/2020)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Heatwave forecast to span Australia according to Bureau of Meteorology (Kate Doyle, ABC Weather)
- Coles, Woolies to accept spotty tomatoes, deformed apples as supply concerns rise (Newsyworld)
- Possible delays in private members bill on environmental water release (Andrew Miller, Stock & Land)
- Govt studying regional airport infrastructure (Samantha Townsend, The Land)
- Restrictions on bringing fruit and vegetables into South Australia (PIRSA)
- Queensland’s rain brings relief but not an end to drought and water shortages (George Roberts, ABC News)
- Fire aid arrives, but drought-affected farmers say they’ve been forgotten (ABC)
- Kaufland shock: Why the supermarket giant abandoned its Australian plans (Isabelle Lane, The New Daily)
- Inside the room as the Murray-Darling’s top cop Mick Keelty meets irrigators (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural),
- Leaf and stem thickness will tell you the stress level in your plant (Hortidaily)
- Inquiry will look at “trigger points” for reconsidering Murray Darling Basin Plan (Olivia Calver, The Land)
- Scott Morrison outsources Bridget McKenzie’s future to the bureaucrats she ignored in awarding sports grants (Jane Norman, ABC)