The week’s top stories (week ending 06/08/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Indians, Mexicans set for Aussie work under backpacker visa expansion backed by farm lobby (Jackson Gothe-Snape, ABC News)
- Awards of Excellence 2019 pay tribute to hort’s best (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Hort Innovation makes key appointments (Matthew Jones, Fruitnet)
- NFF launch Telling Our Story campaign to fix urban-rural disconnect (Madeleine Stuchbery, The Weekly Times)
- Murray-Darling Basin inspector-general to oversee water efficiency, compliance and allegations of theft (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Victorian farm lobby calls backpacker visa expansion ‘definition of insanity’ (Kath Sullivan and Jackson Gothe-Snape, ABC Rural)
- Murray Darling’s top water cop puts states on notice (Mike Foley, Stock and Land)
- Japanese delegates visit farms in Bowen on a learning tour (Jessica Johnston, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Day zero approaches for Stanthorpe as locals face prospect of levy to cover cost of trucked-in water (Elly Bradfield, ABC Southern Queensland)
- Government program to send Newstart recipients to farms branded a complete failure (Cait Kelly, The New Daily)
- Impossible Whopper’s plant patties taste almost like real meat — and that’s worrying cattle farmers (Craig Reucallel, ABC Foreign Correspondent)
- Demand for native foods pushes foraging trend to greenhouse cultivation (Kim Honan, ABC Rural)
- Potato Industry Western Australia looking for best way to grow export (PotatoPro)