The week’s top stories (week ending 17/09/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- The drought is now so severe it is biting in even the greenest corners of the country (Nadia Daly, ABC 7.30)
- Farm trespass laws pass making it illegal to use websites, social media to incite others (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Nationals push for ban on plant-based, alternative products being called ‘milk’, ‘meat’, ‘seafood’ (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- Why farmers fear fake meat activists more than fake meat (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Almonds trialled in outback NT, with hopes to capitalise on huge demand for health food (Jack Price, ABC Rural)
- ABARES forecasts four-year low for farm production amid drought and trade wars (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Nationals MPs snub launch of farming group’s climate change report (Sarah Martin, The Guardian)
- Extreme weather wipes a possible $750 million off upcoming WA grain harvest (Belinda Varischetti, Joanna Prendergast & Emma Field, ABC WA Country Hour)
- Bushfires and strong winds knock millions of dollars off NT mango crop (Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- Natural predators key to beating vegetable crop pests (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- $1m a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world – report (Damian Carrington, The Guardian)
- Optus chosen to cover mobile black spots in remote Australia, sparking anger (Kristy Sexton-McGrath, ABC Far North)