The week’s top stories (week ending 14/05/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- NSW orchardist Mark Napper returns to AUSVEG board (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- [OPINION] Joel Fitzgibbon: Labor’s climate change policies a win-win for ag (Joel Fitzgibbon, The Weekly Times)
- Australia’s biosecurity must be strengthened, says AUSVEG (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Vegetable growers fear for the future of workforce (2GB)
- Drought far from over but May rain helps some New South Wales farmers (ABC Rural)
- Is corporate farming ruining the sense of community in small rural and regional towns? (Belinda Varischetti, ABC News)
- The Body Shop is fighting food waste one dodgy carrot at a time (Finder)