The week’s top stories (week ending 10/09/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Good growers need help – now (Bill Bulmer, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Shoppers warned to brace for higher food prices as Murray-Darling Basin faces increasing dry (Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC Rural)
- Australian ‘Nationals’ are not abandoning agriculture visa (Fresh Plaza)
- Horticulture growers lifting focus on worker welfare (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Agriculture a likely stumbling block in free trade negotiations between NZ and EU (Irena Obadovic, The Conversation)
- Angry farmers throw effigy of Federal Water Minister sitting on toilet into Murray River (Rhiannon Tuffield and Warwick Long, ABC Shepparton)
- Glyphosate banned in key European nation (Gregor Heard, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Australian fresh produce industry seeks new export protocols in Asia (Fresh Fruit Portal)
- Rare weather event over Antarctica driving Australia’s hot, dry outlook (Ben Deacon, ABC Weather)
- Sarah Henderson defeats Greg Mirabella to claim Victorian Liberal Senate seat (Richard WIllingham, ABC News)
- African Swine Fever tipped to spread, but biosecurity levy still in limbo (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Farmers – the New Forgotten People says Joel Fitzgibbon (Joel Fitzgibbon, The Land)
- Panama TR4 slowly spreading on infected farms (Good Fruit and Vegetables)