The week’s top stories (week ending 21/01/2020)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Drought forces producers in Queensland’s salad bowl region to feed livestock vegetable waste (Lydia Burton and Nathan Morris, ABC Rural)
- Rain to ease to isolated showers (Andrew Miller, Stock and Land)
- Australia’s bushfires could affect cost and availability of fresh local produce (Amaani Siddeek, The Guardian)
- Price pressure as fruit and vege supplies disrupted (Liam Walsh, Australian Financial Review) – story accessible via subscription
- ‘Surge in need’: Government must pay up as bushfires hike food prices, ACOSS says (Isabelle Lane, The New Daily)
- Farmers and workers both claim to lose out in changes to horticultural labour rules (Daniel Fitzgerald, ABC NT Country House)
- Australia’s fresh produce exports losing out to competitors (Fresh Plaza)
- Powdery scab fix for potatoes getting closer (Isabel Bird, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Bushfire farm grants of $75,000 ‘a start’ but won’t go far in ‘mammoth task’ to rebuild amid fodder shortage (Luisa Rubbo and Tim Fookes, ABC)
- Supplementary food dropped to fire-affected endangered species (Olivia Carter, The Land)
- Most Aussie kids not eating their veggies (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Queensland storms and showers bring more much needed rain to drought-affected areas (ABC News)
- Ample supplies keep fertiliser prices in check (Stock and Land)
- Farmers were always there first, so what’s the problem? (Daniel Pedersen, Good Fruit and Vegetables)