Top week’s top news stories week ending 17/03/2020
- Harvests could be lost if coronavirus travel restrictions lead to labour shortages on Australian farms (Ben Smee, The Guardian)
- Coronavirus pandemic driving strong demand for local fruit and vegetables (Zoe Keenan, ABC South West SA)
- Agricultural and regional events succumb to coronavirus (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Victorian farmers’ markets to continue with changes (Colin Taylor & Chantelle Francis, The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Female seasonal workers gain more than just fruit from their labour (Eden Hynninen, ABC Tasmanian Country Hour)
- Darling River flows at Menindee Lakes, washing away spectre of mass fish kills (Declan Gooch, ABC Broken Hill)
- VegKit for Australian kids (Liam O’Callaghan, Produce Plus)
- Big bucks put into waste potato project (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Agricultural researchers scramble for answers as fall armyworm incursion threatens crops, industries in Queensland (Amy Phillips, ABC QLD Country Hour)
- Researchers and farmers join forces in bid to save Great Barrier Reef from fertiliser run-off (Tom Major, ABC Rural)
- No coronavirus panic in ag sector where agenda is focused and rain-revived (Andrew Marshall, Stock & Land)
- Excitement builds regarding Bayer’s new herbicide mode of action (Gregor Heard, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Microscope for mobile phones set to help farmers detect pests and diseases (Matt Brann, ABC NT Country Hour)