The week’s top stories (week ending 26/03/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
Australian industry:
- AUSVEG releases list forming agenda in lead-up to federal election (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Common fruit flies are beginning to build a resistance to common insecticides (Gary-Jon Lysaght, Jodie Hamilton and Sarah Tomlinson, ABC North and West)
- War on waste debate tackles fruit and vegetable wrapping benefits over more food waste (Fiona Breen, Tasmania Country Hour)
- Aussie Farms map: Google ignores farmers’ complaints (Sheradyn Holderhead, The Daily Telegraph)
- NSW election result shows regional seats should not be ignored, Barnaby Joyce warns (Stephanie Dalzell, ABC News)
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s plan to tempt migrants to go bush to ease congestion in capital cities (Sarah Martin, PerthNow)
- Tasmania’s GMO ban under review as scientist urges change to ‘feed more people’ (Lucy Shannon, ABC News)
- Minister faces a hostile crowd as northern Victorian farmers spell out the issues (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Skilled migrants to fill vacancies in regional SA (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farmers to be paid to keep trees on land in pilot scheme to cut carbon (David Crowe, The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Roundup found to be ‘substantial factor’ in causing US man’s cancer (Sue Lannin, ABC News)
- Opinion: Enjoy fruit and vegies, warts and all (Raelene Hall, The West Australian)
- Harvest Moon’s purpose-bred snacking carrots prove a hit (Helen Kempton, The Mercury)
- Mulgowie Farming focus on putting health first (James Wagstaff, The Weekly Times)
- Neal family grow seed potatoes on paddocks never been cropped (Karolin MacGregor, Tasmanian Country)
- Top 5 innovative ways farmers conserve water (Cassandra Glover, Rural Weekly)
- Using high-tech cartography to count fruit trees 6,000 times faster than we can (Kallee Buchanan, ABC Rural)
International news:
- Canada: Canadian Horticultural Council premieres new documentary to honour international farm workers (HortiDaily)
- Germany: Aldi scraps plastic packaging on cucumbers (Mike Knowles, Eurofruit)
- Hong Kong: New agricultural park will boost Hong Kong’s vegetable production but farmers are not happy they cannot live on site (Phila Siu, South China Morning Post)
- The Netherlands: “Supermarkets’ buying power is just getting stronger” (Rob Morren, HortiDaily)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 26 March 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!