The week’s top stories (week ending 3/12/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- PMA A-NZ announces new directors (Liam O’Callaghan, Produce Plus)
- Hobart could face water restrictions as city’s demand spikes, irrigators asked to slash usage (Erin Cooper, ABC News)
- SA horticulture nets $14.6m in funding to boost productivity (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Red imported fire ants found in Fremantle, prompting warning about potentially deadly bite (Alisha O’Flaherty, ABC News)
- Summer outlook from Bureau of Meteorology suggests hot, dry times to continue (Kate Doyle, ABC Weather)
- Water for fodder to flow from next week under $100 million deal with South Australia (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Tasmania’s green drought is no longer green (Eden Hynninen, ABC Tasmanian Country Hour)
- ‘Can the Plan’ convoy heads to Canberra calling for end to Murray-Darling Basin Plan (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Families getting ‘bogged’ in sand pouring out of drought-affected paddocks (Leonie Thorne and Cherie von Horchner, ABC Mildura – Swan Hill)
- Australia endures its driest and second-hottest spring on record (Naaman Zhou, The Guardian)