The week’s top stories (week ending 19/03/19)
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:
- Value of Aussie fresh vegetable exports increases over 11% (Mirage News)
- Vegie growers to root out plastic packaging (Damon Kitney, The Australian)
- ABARES forecast: Horticulture production value to increase in 2019-20 (Nicola Bell, The Weekly Times)
- Cyclone Trevor strengthens to category three as it nears Far North Queensland coast (ABC News)
- Mobile blackspot program round four to build 180 new towers (Mike Foley, Farm Online)
- WA farmers fed up with slow internet build their own network (Kit Mochan and Mark Bennett, ABC Great Southern)
- There’s a further State Government push to protect Melbourne’s significant agricultural land (Andrew Miller, Stock and Land)
- Murray-Darling Basin debate gives rise to new Victorian voices of desperation and despair (Warwick Long, Victoria Country Hour)
- Irrigators hit with spend on river pump meters to provide real-time data on water use (Sally Bryant, NSW Country Hour)
- McCain’s $37 million funding announcement for Smithton plant will not mean much to farmers, says grower (Sandy Powell, The Advocate)
- R&D to enhance farming future, according to government-commissioned report (Lucy Knight, The Weekly Times)
- Nuffield scholar finds technological on-farm advances (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Demand for hemp seed drives new crop of growers in Tasmania keen to ride the high (Laurissa Smith, Tasmania Country Hour)
- Speed breeding of crops by Queensland researchers in bid to battle global hunger (Rachel Riga, ABC News)
- Fresh Technique: Hanwood hydroponic farm continues family traditions (Lindsay Hayes, The Weekly Times)
- Study reveals limited response to biological inputs (Bob Freebairn, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Microscopic pests in focus of smartphone app (Jim Plouffe, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Japanese students in Bowen to learn about horticulture (Jessica Johnston, North Queensland Register)
- Drought, heat and floods blamed for limited fresh produce supply on supermarket shelves (Tim Fookes, ABC Rural)
- Energy from waste and a circular economy: innovative ideas to solve the waste crisis (Stephanie Anderson, ABC News)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 19 March 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!