The week’s top stories (week ending 15/01/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
Australian industry:
- Tasmania growers celebrate fruit fly free status (Karolin MacGregor, Tasmanian Country)
- Labor and rural Australia at loggerheads over visa plan (Sheradyn Holderhead, The Daily Telegraph)
- Berries Australia picks new chief executive (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Impacts of Kyoto Protocol policy are still felt on-farm (Mike Foley, Queensland Country Life)
- Weather 2018: This is your story, Australia (Kate Doyle and Amanda Collier, ABC Weather)
- Water ministers reject claims of mismanagement over massive Murray-Darling fish kill (Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Aussie farming charities investigated over drought funds (Kate Kachor, 9 News)
- Littleproud slams supermarkets over lack of support for drought-stricken dairy farmers (Alex Sinnott, The Weekly Times)
- Growers slam state govt for Melbourne’s Wholesale Market review delay (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Local councils key to national reform for ag heavy vehicles (North Queensland Register)
- Organic tomatoes get a taste of what super investment can grow (Cherie von Hörchner, Victoria Country Hour)
- Avocados for dessert? Industry plots ways to increase future demand as production levels soar (Tom Major, ABC Rural)
- Making switch to vegan diet easy with simple, modifiable recipes at Raw Food Preparation Workshop (Jack Lawrie, The Cairns Post)
- Costa demand problems all fruit at once (Tim Boyd, Australian Financial Review)
- Trial underway for year-round growing season in north Queensland (Andrea Davy, Rural Weekly)
- Recap of Protected Cropping Australia’s Growers Innovation Day (Tony Bundock, PCA)
- Unique way works for potato farm in Killarney (Johanna Leggatt, The Weekly Times)
- Nutritionists launch portion size guide to tackle obesity (Marie Claire Dorking, Yahoo Style UK)
- Green juice ingredient gaining popularity in Melbourne (Tamsin Rose, Herald Sun)
- Chinese inventor carves instruments out of vegetables (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Some musical genius has covered Toto’s ‘Africa’ on a bunch of veggies (Tyler Jenke, Tone Deaf)
International news:
- France: French cucumber grower goes year-round with LED (HortiDaily)
- UK: Inspiring a new audience for watercress (AHDB)
- Canada: Reducing plastic a priority for Canadian greenhouse grower (HortiDaily)
- South Africa: Adaptation key to vegetable farmer’s sustainable growth (Mike Burgess, Farmer’s Weekly)
- Spain: Spanish fears mount over no-deal Brexit (Maura Maxwell, EuroFruit)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 15 January 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!