The week’s top stories (week ending 03/03/2020)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- ABARES Outlook 2020 says work needed to keep hort exports up (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Australian agtech company aiming to deliver real time detection of crop diseases (Matt Bran, ABC NT Country Hour)
- Farm wait for Government’s $100 million water to follow months after drought deal announced (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Irrigator group asks for ‘immediate action’ not talk after Barilaro backs Royal Commission (Oliver Calver, The Land)
- Yoom purple tomato variety with unami flavour in Australian trails after going on sale in Europe (Matt Bran, ABC Rural)
- High-ranking Nationals attack National Farmers Federation climate policy (Jamieson Murphy, Farm Online)
- Webster Limited’s Canadian takeover finalised (Sean Ford, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Victorian vegetable grower paid ‘vast amounts of cash’ for illegal workers, Melbourne court told (Karen Percy, ABC News)
- FoodEx Japan 2020 cancelled due to corona virus (Fresh Plaza)
- Fall armyworm spreads 1,000 kilometres south from detection point, dashing eradication hopes (Tom Major, ABC Rural)
- Gippsland irrigators form a group to formally oppose mine plan (Bryce Eishold, Stock & Land)
- Western Australian exporters fear fees (Liam O’Callaghan, Produce Plus)
- Covered agriculture pays off for far northern cropping looking to beat the summer heat (Airley Felton-Taylor, QLD ABC Country Hour)
- Fall armyworm detected in Georgetown (Jessica Johnson, North Queensland Register)
- Law Society slams proposed industrial manslaughter legislation for senior mine employees as ‘harsh and unjust’ (Jemima Burt ABC News)
- Plan to divert water from Darling River to Toorale National Park floodplain causes anger (ABC News)