The week’s top stories (week ending 26/11/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Industry calls for tax to be dumped as workers disappear (Dominic Elsome, Gatton Star)
- New chairwoman to lead Queensland horticulture (David Thomson, Queensland Country Life)
- Muscling up on biosecurity, mate (or “Ya can’t bring that in here, ya dolt!”) (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Holistic approach the key to managing resistance (Gregor Heard, The Land)
- Elders appoints new horticultural specialist to TEC team (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Foodbank donations cycling back to the bush (Andrew Marshall, The Land)
- NATIONAL AG DAY: 10 farmers tell what they love about ag (Dominic Elsome, Gatton Star)