The week’s top stories (week ending 22/10/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:Green grape in latest needle tamper case
- African swine fever fears spike in Australia as woman deported for smuggling pork into Sydney airport (Eden Hynninen, ABC Rural)
- The Top End’s multi-million-dollar mango industry in race to adapt to climate change (Jane Bardon, ABC News)
- Farmer of the Year Award winners share a life-long love of the land (Erin Cooper, ABC Rural)
- We can’t drought-proof Australia, and trying is a fool’s errand (Emma Kathryn White, The Conversation)
- NSW farm trespass laws pass first hurdle after last-minute changes (Tim Fookes and Michael Condon, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Farmers look for biosecurity funding, as African swine fever spreads closer to Australia (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Stanthorpe farmers go to incredible lengths to weather horror season of fires, drought (Courtney Wilson, ABC Landline)
- Plastic reduced as hort industry looks at compost wraps (Jessica Bassano, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Ag’s successful strategies no longer good enough – time for levy re-think (Michelle Allen, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Farmers tap city psyche to bridge urban-rural divide (Good Fruit and Vegetables)