The week’s top stories (week ending 24/09/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- The threat of varroa mite is real. But these Australian beekeepers are ready to face it (Mei Sun, ABC Radio National)
- Facing global trade war and drought, Australian farmers predicting four-year low (Camille Bianchi, SBS)
- Cairns Airport eyes agricultural export distribution centre contract (Amy Phillips, ABC Queensland Country Hour)
- One quarter of world’s pigs killed by African swine fever as disease spreads to South Korea (Warwick Long, ABC Victorian Country Hour)
- Government APVMA board move slammed (Gregor Heard, The Land)
- How a frozen meringue led investigators to the source of a potent salmonella outbreak (Jess Davis, ABC News)
- Farmers wanting to take care of themselves but needing Government help to make it happen (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Federal Government set to introduce new quad bike laws requiring crush protection devices (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- The 85-year-old ‘money tree’ feeding Australia’s insatiable appetite for smashed avo (Elise Kinsella, ABC Landline)
- Police investigate reports of needles found in strawberries in Melbourne (ABC News)
- Dumped gravel and rocks blocks environmental water from flowing into Murray-Darling forest (Warwick Long, ABC Victorian Country Hour)