The week’s top stories (week ending 11/02/2020)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Value of Aussie fresh vegetable exports increases to AUD$299m (AUSVEG Media Release)
- Dozens of farm workers found living in five-bedroom building in Tasmania’s north (ABC News)
- Murray-Darling Basin war of words over northern irrigators extracting water from potential river flows (ABC Rural)
- David Littleproud needs to hit the ground running as Ag Minister: NFF Fiona Simpson (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Drone operator granted licence to spray weeds in Tasmanian first (ABC News)
- Win for glyphosate (Roundup) in the US (The Land)
- Vegetable prices in China skyrocketed by 100% then dropped by 40% (Fresh Plaza)
- Hort export tariffs cut but timeframes questioned (The Land)
- Panama disease tropical race 4 detected on Tully banana farm in Far North QLD (ABC News)
- BASF opens $1.5m inoculant plant and targets more Aussie growth (Farm Online)
- Private irrigation district will struggle to deliver Water For Fodder (The Land)
- Leafy greens business going gangbusters as chefs source unique Tasmanian garnishes (ABC News)
- Australia’s farmers welcome competition from US-China trade deal (Nikkei Asian Review)
- Hort labour agreement promises skilled labour access (North Queensland Register)