The week’s top stories (week ending 10/12/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Bushfire season starts early with Gippsland residents urged to prepare after deadly ‘practice run’ (Sarah Maunder, ABC Gippsland)
- ‘Can the Plan’ protesters say they’ve brokered a deal with Federal Water Minister and Mick Keelty (Kath Sullivan and Clint Jasper, ABC Rural)
- Michael Radcliff joins Ausveg board (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Murray Darling crop production costs outpace crop values (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Murray-Darling Basin’s top cop offers a damning assessment of the federal Agriculture Department (Kath Sullivan and Clint Jasper, ABC Rural)
- Coles to pay $5.25m to farmers supplying Norco cooperative for ‘misleading conduct’ in marketing material (Michael Cavanagh and Amelia Bernasconi, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Sydney high school students say they have a greater appreciation for agriculture after farm excursion (Lara Webster, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Future gains in packhouse automation rely on workforce development (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Tonnes of hail-damaged fruit mulched after fears of another fruit fly outbreak in Riverland (Samantha Dawes and Grace Whiteside, ABC Rural)
- New alliance wants Australian horticulture to grow to $20 billion (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times – subscription required)
- Telstra glitch causing ongoing call drop outs and major reception issues across regional Australia (Francesca Mann and Glenn Barndon, ABC Mid West and Wheatbelt)
- Avocados with edible coating to go on sale in Europe for first time (Rebecca Smithers, The Guardian)