The week’s top stories (week ending 09/04/19)
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:
- Fruit and vegetable prices ‘could double’ in a decade as power and energy costs grow (Jennifer Nichols and Lydia Burton, ABC News)
- Fair Work Commission ruling on casual rates in horticulture will increase cost of fresh fruit and vegetables, farmers say (Matt Brann and Richard Hudson, ABC News)
- New horticulture wage rate deadline is too short say producers (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Federal Budget 2019: Winners and losers (Jackson Gothe-Snape, ABC News)
- Federal Budget contains drought support, trade assistance and disaster relief for farmers (Kath Sullivan & Clint Jasper, ABC News)
- Budget 2019: National Farmers Federation hails measures (Lucy Knight, The Weekly Times)
- Extreme weather drives celery prices up (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Robotic apple picker under close scrutiny as world-first commercial harvest underway in New Zealand (Tony Briscoe, ABC News)
- Aussie fresh vegetable exports grow to $281m (Food Processing)
- The sweet potato proves healthier than the regular spud (Tony Fawcett, The Weekly Times)
- The pre-election Budget is here. Find out how much you’ll save in tax if the Coalition wins (Andrew Kesper and Matthew Doran, ABC News)
- GrainCorp to demerge global malting business (Madeleine Stuchbery, The Weekly Times)
- Fast food giants are jumping on the meat-free bandwagon — but are people really buying it? (Christina Zhou, ABC News)
International news:
- New Zealand: New Zealand growers participate in biosecurity workshop (Hortidaily)
- United Kingdom: Tesco begins plastic-free trial for selected fruit and vegetables (Hortidaily)
- The Netherlands: International interest in Wageningen Summer School (Hortidaily)
- Global: Air cargo demand dips (Luisa Cheshire, Asiafruit)
- Global: Amazon pulls away from rivals (Maura Maxwell, Asiafruit)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 9 April 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!