The week’s top stories (week ending 05/06/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Leaders in Australian horticulture to be celebrated at Hort Connections 2018 (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Hort Connections one stop industry shop (David Thomson, Growcom/Queensland Country Life)
- Australian minimum wage increased by Fair Work Commission to $719.20 a week (ABC News)
- Australia’s Seasonal Workers Program a win for Pacific Islanders, too (Jonathan Pryke, ABC News)
- Salinity crisis destroying Australia’s farmland, but farmers hope to stop it (Kit Mochan and Benjamin Gubana, ABC Rural)
- Farmers weighing up options in wake of poor outlook for rain over winter (Gregor Heard, Farm Online)
- BOM outlook: Winter is coming – but it’s looking warm and dry for south-east Australia (Kate Doyle and Marty McCarthy, ABC Weather)
- Plant-based probing could transform orchard irrigation by saving water and cutting costs (Meagan Rooth, ABC Rural)
- Murray-Darling Basin: Meet the NSW water regulator saying he’ll cut off supply to rogue irrigators (Sally Bryant, NSW Country Hour)
- Experts share tips for adding value to crops (Roger Hanson, The Weekly Times)
- Plastic straws to be shelved by Woolworths this year as Coles commits to 90pc diversion from landfill by 2022 (Charlie McKillop, ABC Rural)
- More pressure on insecticide with aphid resistance spreading (Gregor Heard, Farm Online)
- [Victorian] fruit fly committee disbanded but fight against pest continues (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- NFF launches Diversity in Agricultural Leadership program (Mike Foley, North Queensland Register)
- Agriculture Minister David Littleproud advocates ‘calm and decisive’ approach (Jennifer Hoar, Newcastle Herald)
- vegetablesWA building bridges with Wanneroo’s Vietnamese vegetable growers (Lucy Jarvis, Wanneroo Times)
- Let’s talk about real Australian food (Bruce Pascoe, SBS Food)
- ‘It’s like a licence to print money’ – Citrus industry urges Government to help preserve China trade (Prue Adams, Landline)
- Topsoil Mapper: Sensors see what’s up down under (Colin Taylor, The Weekly Times)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 5 June 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!