The week’s top stories (week ending 30/07/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- The Visa Game (David Hardaker and Chris Woods, Crikey)
- Efficiency the key for Jason Shields of Plunkett’s Orchard at Ardmona (James Wagstaff, The Weekly Times)
- We won’t be bullied in Australia: NFF lashes quad bike companies (Mike Foley, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- International consumers want fresh and sustainable products, trade experts say (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Funding bolsters fruit fly fight into future (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Fair Farms officially gets underway (Queensland Country Life)
- Rural communities have had a ‘gutful of political bunfight’ amid political drought debate (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Greens back farm trespass, saying it can be ‘reasonable’ in defending animal welfare (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Judge in Roundup trials reduces $US2 billion awarded to couple who blamed weedkiller for their cancer (ABC News)
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan royal commission push endorsed at NSW Farmers conference (ABC NSW Country Hour)
- The network that monitors Australia’s UV-exposure levels expands to central Queensland (Alice Roberts, ABC Capricornia)
- Shipping containers, plywood and data: the secret ingredients of your online food delivery (Dan Ziffer, ABC News)