The week’s top stories (week ending 19/02/19)
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:
- Welfare no solution for drought-affected farmers (Rob Harris, Herald Sun)
- UNICEF combines drought stories of country kids to warn of worsening rural stress (Patrick Wood, ABC News Breakfast)
- Queensland flood devastation will take years to repair, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says (ABC News)
- ‘Climate-change refugees’ quit mainland farming in search of greener pastures in Tasmania (Pip Courtney, Landline)
- Australia’s bushfire survivors demand government action on climate change (Maani Truu, SBS News)
- National approach to climate change close to being finalised (Lucy Knight, The Weekly Times)
- Opposition won’t back PM’s Future Drought Fund (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Researcher found children eat more vegetables when offered as snack (Susie O’Brien, Herald Sun)
- CCA cuts SPC’s value to zero ahead of sale (Patrick Hatch, The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Woolworths to stop selling $1 milk in win for dairy farmers (MIchelle Brown, ABC News)
- Littleproud urges farmers to “remain calm” after activist video (Cassandra Glover, Rural Weekly)
- Old-fashioned farming turns organic sweet potato growers’ business into success (Jessica Schremmer, ABC Rural)
- Christina Kelman, Rita’s Farm, goes for growth with herbs, vegetables (Sarah Hudson, The Weekly Times)
- Food naming rights: It’s not just fetta, it’s our farming free-trade future (Fiona Simson, Australian Financial Review)
- Queensland fruit fly puts New Zealand’s Devonport in fruit and vegetable lockdown (DPA/The West Australian)
- Gippsland farm guilty of third workplace safety offence, fined $80,000 (Emma Field, ABC Gippsland)
- ‘A disgrace’: Backlash after Coles releases new plastic collectables (Maani Truu, SBS News)
- NSW election: Where the parties stand on tackling climate change through food consumption (Amanda Hoh, ABC Radio Sydney)
- NSW election: $350m to help farmers, and the Nationals, survive in the bush (Andrew Clennell, The Australian)
- Agronomist & two Aussie veggie growers picked to fly from the ‘Farm Gate’ to the ‘Golden Gate’ (Mirage News)
- Elders boss says non-practical R&D is stunting growth (Damon Kitney, The Australian)
International news:
- Global: World Potato Congress launches webinar series (PotatoPro)
- Europe: European project to turn roofs into greenhouses (HortiDaily)
- Canada: Processing vegetable growers trialing new automated transplanting technology (Agricultural Adaptation Council)
- New Zealand: NZ Made rolls out ‘New Zealand grown’ labels (Aimee Shaw, NZ Herald)
- Japan: Farming industry sees insightful progress (Satoyama Consortium, The Japan Times)
- USA: Robots could run future farms (Carl Collen, Americafruit)
- Spain: Nunhems showcases new lettuces (Maura Maxwell, Eurofruit)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 19 February 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!