The week’s top stories (week ending 23/07/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Reducing listeria contamination from salad vegetables (Fresh Plaza)
- How climate change is affecting what we grow and eat (Jess David & Kate Doyle, ABC Rural)
- Australia ups efforts against Queensland fruit fly with A$10M research project (Fresh Fruit Portal)
- Gippsland farmers are struggling through a green drought and say outsiders ‘don’t understand’ (Peter Somerville, ABC Gippsland)
- Anthony Albanese warns PM: don’t play politics with drought funding (Amy Remeikis, The Guardian)
- Yamba station makeover helping protect SA horticulture (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Hoffmann sees huge benefits in united hort sector (Vanessa Banks, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Five things I learnt covering Australia’s drought crisis this week (Michael Rowland, ABC News Breakfast)
- Protesters face tougher fines of up to $400,000, potential jail time as NSW beefs up farm trespass laws (Tim Fookes and Cecilia Connell, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Future Drought Fund that formed centrepiece of Scott Morrison’s summit passes Lower House (Tom Iggulden, ABC News)