The week’s top stories (week ending 05/03/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
Australian industry:
- Eggplant and cabbages show greatest growth in volumes purchased (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Parents should fill lunchboxes with “brain food” (Queensland Country Life)
- Australia set to seal Indonesia free trade agreement (Tom McIlroy, Australian Financial Review)
- Wet season missing in action for Northern Territory, as Barkly cattle country bakes and waters run dry (Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- Groundwater in Darwin’s rural area at worrying levels, with time running out for wet season rains (Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- Victorian drought support a sixth of what’s on offer in NSW (Peter Hunt, The Weekly Times)
- Drought wipes billions from Australian farm production (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- The future of farming in the era of climate change (Micaela Hambrett, ABC Central West)
- Buy FNQ produce to avoid higher cost of southern crops (Alicia Nally, The Cairns Post)
- Getting your daily protein intake isn’t as hard — or expensive — as you might think (Dr Sandro Demaio, ABC Life)
- Farmers could be paid out by unscrupulous banks under Labor plan (Rachel Eddie, The New Daily)
- Christmas Island farmer turns the tide on $15 lettuce and other expensive produce (Tom Joyner, ABC Goldfields)
- Zunkers swap sugar cane for sweet potato success (The Weekly Times)
- Environment comes first for EE Muir & Sons (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- ‘Subdued’ buying of tomatoes and berries hits Costa Group profit (Darren Gray, The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Are potatoes bad for you? A dietitian gives us the facts (Alex Lilly, Now To Love)
- Why celery juice isn’t the miracle some claim (Carrie Dennett, Good Food)
- Dump the dumps to avoid listeria potential, rockmelon growers told (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- FAO labels 2020 as International Year of Plant Health (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Victoria pushes to make Bee Industry Code of Practice mandatory (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Why I lasted just five weeks working in the apple industry (James McGee, The Age)
International news:
- The Netherlands: Scanning Instagram for cress (HortiDaily)
- New Zealand: Restrictions extended in Auckland (Matthew Jones, Asiafruit)
- United Kingdom: UK potato chips prices surge after heatwave-induced potato shortage (Olivia Petter, The Independent)
- United Kingdom: Compass: ‘Trust and tech will shape our food system’ (Fred Searle, Fresh Produce Journal)
- United Kingdom: ‘Seeds always sell better in a crisis’: The business selling a Brexit vegetable survival kit (ITV News)
- USA: Agrofresh expands to new markets (Camellia Aebischer, Americafruit)
- USA: Using drones to sample irrigation ponds for E. coli (US Department of Agriculture)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 5 March 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!