The week’s top stories (week ending 29/10/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:Green grape in latest needle tamper case
- Farmers ask Scott Morrison to consider financial incentives to leave drought-affected land (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Major stimulus package for drought-affected regions set to be approved by Federal Government (Andrew Probyn, ABC News)
- Nationals push for $1.2bn in drought relief to help party keep seats in next election (Sarah Martin, The Guardian)
- #buyfromthebush calls on city consumers to keep small-town shops open during drought (Adriane Reardon, ABC Western Plains)
- Feral pig cull needed, say farmers, to avoid spread of African Swine Fever (Angus Verley, Olivia Ralph, Matt Brann and Carmen Brown, ABC Rural)
- Farmers could be paid more for sustainable practices (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Water traders without connection to farming are ‘failing the pub test’, Minister says (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Farmers in South Australia’s Riverland fear they will not survive another year, with water prices skyrocketing (Laura Collins and Grace Whiteside, ABC Rural)
- The story behind Australia’s first red corn whiskey from paddock to barrel in Western Australia (Courtney Fowler, Richard Hudson and Michelle Stanley, ABC WA Country Hour)
- What would a ‘climate diet’ look like in Australia? (Natalie Parletta, The Guardian)
- Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows (Damian Carrington, The Guardian)