The week’s top stories (week ending 27/08/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Rugby Farm one of Australia’s biggest vegetable-growing operations (James Wagstaff, The Weekly Times)
- Hydroponic capsicums: Wallace Vegetable Farm makes the move (Louise Preece, The Weekly Times)
- Piece rates ratified by Marland Mushrooms case victory (Lucy Knight, The Weekly Times)
- Big irrigators take 86% of water from Barwon-Darling, report finds (Anne Davies, The Guardian)
- Gippsland council hands out $700 debit cards to help drought-affected farmers and stimulate local economy (Sarah Maunder, ABC Gippsland)
- Pye’s search for edge drives industry forward (Elizabeth Anderson, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Flavorite tomatoes grow from cottage industry to major player (Marian MacDonald, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Coalition has lost control of borders, with 80,000 asylum arrivals by plane, Labor says (Paul Karp, The Guardian)
- Tim Fischer obituary: singular political character who rose to become Australia’s deputy PM (Katherine Murphy, The Guardian)
- ACCC gives green light to Landmark acquisition of rival RuralCo (Clint Jasper, ABC Rural)
- Menindee jujube and grape growers halt season, while citrus hangs on amid drought and poor water conditions (Saskia Mabin, ABC Rural)
- California looks to Australia for ways to manage its groundwater after worst-ever drought (Kristy O’Brien, ABC Landline)
- Beekeepers confident industry can keep up with demand for almond pollination (Grace Whiteside, ABC Rural)
- The female farmers taking a stand to change the face of Australian agriculture (Briana Shepherd, ABC News)
- Tropical fruit growers improve leadership skills with LEAD program (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Australia’s ‘broken’ visa system being used for human trafficking, experts say (Sarah Martin, The Guardian)
- Top End asparagus farm begins ‘relentless’ harvest of super-fast growing crop (Carmen Brown, ABC NT Country Hour)