The week’s top stories (week ending 07/05/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Chemical review: Greens’ big agvet call (Lucy Knight, The Weekly Times)
- $4m investment to get kids eating 19,000 tonnes more veg a year (The Weekly Times)
- Farmers’ water use surges in big dry (Michael Roddan, The Australian)
- South Australian growers urge people to stop bringing fruit into their region (Sowaibah Hanifie, ABC News)
- Coalition makes on-farm pre-election pledge of cheap loans and water market review (Kath Sullivan, ABC News)
- Australian dollar headed for a fall as Reserve Bank mulls interest rates cut (Ian Verrender, ABC News)