The week’s top stories (week ending 16/01/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Hort Innovation CEO announces retirement (The Land)
- Growers who weathered tough 2017 want better results (Eliza Goetze, News Mail)
- Fruit picking season in full swing but southern states struggle to find labour (Nick Bosly-Pask, ABC Rural)
- Fresh produce gets a rev up with new tech (Queensland Country Life)
- Why the price of cauliflower and capsicum has skyrocketed (Adam Duggan, 9 News)
- Ducks destroy Mornington Peninsula lettuce crops (Kath Sullivan, The Weekly Times)
- Giant pumpkin in race against rot (Jamie Brown, The Land)
- Happy endings from fresh fruit and veg (Merran White, AgInnovators)
- Growers threaten to boycott new ‘over the top’ supermarket quality assurance scheme (Charlie McKillop, ABC Rural)
- One year on … What the Horticulture Code means to you: ACCC (Mick Keogh, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Department of Agriculture and Water Resources staff cuts spur biosecurity fears (Lyndal Reading, The Weekly Times)
- Decentralisation still an issue (Mike Foley, Farm Weekly)
- As little as half a cup of leafy green vegetables a day could shield your brain against dementia (Sam Downing, nine.com.au)