The week’s top stories (week ending 08/10/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:Green grape in latest needle tamper case
- Green grape in latest needle tamper case (Kaitlyn Offer, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- AI being used to grow tomatoes (Mike Knowles, Eurofruit)
- Compostable cucumber wrap cuts plastic (Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet)
- Colour and taste are pepper priorities (Carl Collen, Eurofruit)
- Push to cut drought-loan interest from 2.5 per cent to zero (Tom Fookes, Olivia Ralph and Joshua Becker, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Federal Water Resources Minister David Littleproud on Insiders (ABC Insiders)
- Pigs are being culled and pork prices are rising as African swine fever continues to spread (Ellen Duffy, ABC News)
- Aussies have packaged produce waste worries (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Medical warning after engineer suffers first-degree burns from high-vis shirt (Keane Bourke and Tabarak Al Jrood, ABC News)
- Halloween pumpkins carving out niche market for Kimberley farmers (Courtney Fowler, ABC Rural)
- Mustard cabbage: ‘The most underrated greens to grace Australian tables’ (Palisa Anderson, The Guardian)