AUSVEG Weekly Update – 16 April 2019

The new edition of Potatoes Australia showcases some of the latest in research and development and how growers are becoming involved in industry activities.

The Fair Work Commission has issued a decision to vary the Horticulture Award to provide overtime rates, ordinary hours and public holiday rates for casuals. A final determination has been issued, and these changes are now in effect.

The 2019 AUSVEG VIC and Wolfdene Awards for Excellence will be presented on Friday 3 May at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Kooyong, VIC.

Veggycation is an online, easy-to-use interactive tool, teaching Australians how to learn to love vegetables.

AUSVEG and the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources recently collaborated on a two-day field tour across peri-urban Victoria.

AUSVEG is pleased to announce that the leading vegetable seed company is continuing its Strategic Partnership to support the Australian vegetable industry.

A recent farm walk held at the Schreurs & Sons’ trial site gave attendees the chance to see precision ag technology first-hand.

The expansive Trade Show will see a record number of exhibitors converge in Melbourne to forge new connections and exhibit their cutting edge products and services.

Passionate members of levy-paying horticulture businesses have a great opportunity to travel overseas and learn more about how to tackle our industry’s challenges.

This year, there are more than 25 Nuffield Scholarships on offer, with one Hort Innovation-funded scholarship for a veggie grower up for grabs.

AUSVEG SA and PotatoesSA have partnered with Biosecurity SA to deliver a workshop on biosecurity preparedness through the Clean Your Farm initiative.

A newly-published levy-funded project report looked at leveraging next-generation sequence data to provide a much greater understanding of tospovirus/plant interactions.

Freshlogic is a food market research organisation with deep expertise in fresh and prepared foods, delivering commercially valid and accessible analysis.

The Awards for Excellence are a fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding contributions of individuals and companies in our industry.

Registering your job requirements will give the government valuable information and help it understand the depth of the labour shortages facing Australian growers.

On top of bi-weekly wholesale market price reports, Hort Innovation also publishes monthly reports with longer-term price trends, including three-month price forecasts.