The week’s top stories (week ending 01/05/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Desperate farmers left high and dry as federal relief funding runs out before drought does (Dominique Schwartz, ABC Rural)
- Murray-Darling Basin: Unprecedented letter from community advisors sent to Canberra to try to save plan (Warwick Long, Victorian Country Hour)
- Cyclone season 2018: How Australia’s Pilbara region escaped the storms that hit Broome (Irena Ceranic, ABC News)
- National ban on Northern Territory citrus over canker disease puts livelihoods at stake (ABC News)
- Qfly menace calls nation to action (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Program to help crack down on fruit fly (Geordi Offord, News Mail)
- Need for double bagging fruit fly host produce lifted by DPIPWE (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- EU votes for outdoor ban on common insecticide over danger to bees (ABC News)
- EU ban on neonicotinoids triggers call for a similar ban in Australia to protect bees (Sally Bryant, Kristy Reading and David Claughton, ABC Rural)
- Agvet grants program delivers new tools (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Vegetable growers slam new vegetation laws (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Border Force farm raid: Foreign workers in Cobram detained (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- [AUSVEG VIC] grower of the year: Top gong for lifetime of farming (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Take a ride with Turnbull’s most intriguing minister (Mark Kenny, Farm Online)
- Bush internet customers share NBN satellite service with city residents (Kristy Sexton-McGrath, ABC Far North)
- DandyFresh: Angst over rival market in Melbourne’s southeast (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Plastic waste reduced by up to 30 per cent with help from game-changing farmers’ invention (Jessica Schremmer, Queensland Country Hour)
- New irrigation tech embarks on WA trials (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Spy bugs to keep tabs on Katherine’s mangoes (Chris McLennan, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Australia’s first hemp growers’ co-operative sprouts in WA (Jon Daly, Western Australia Country Hour)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 1 May 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!