The week’s top stories (week ending 07/08/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Chart of the day: is this the most severe drought in history? (Catherine Hanrahan, ABC Interactive Digital Storytelling Team)
- Drought hits the mental health of young people harder, researchers say, but it’s not all doom and gloom (Michael Condon, NSW Country Hour)
- Army on standby to deliver stock supplies to drought-ravaged farms (Andrew Greene, ABC News)
- Farmers welcome drought support but warn more will be needed (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- How Your Grocery Shop Can Help Struggling Aussie Farmers (Gillian Wolski, ten daily)
- Drought policy a ‘difficult, complex challenge’: Farmers’ Federation Chief (ABC 7.30)
- How planting trees and grasses can help stabilise farmland in a changing climate (Micaela Hambrett, ABC Central West)
- Hottest July on record for much of Queensland prompts warnings of more to come (Shelley Lloyd, ABC News)
- ACCC eyes processor McCain Foods over allegations of ‘misleading or deceptive’ dealings with growers (Margot Kelly, Tas Country Hour)
- Black and Gold frozen vegetables recalled over listeria fears (ABC News)
- Woolworths apologises for tweeting that overseas beans are ‘far superior’ to Australian produce (Nikolai Beilharz, ABC Rural)
- Seasonal workers info sessions headed to Lockyer and Bundy (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- New report sums up biosecurity efforts (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Trans-Tasman project aims for better biosecurity (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Beekeepers urged to adopt Biosecurity Code of Practice (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Australian agriculture groups join forces (Marnie Banger, AAP/news.com.au)
- Horticulture Innovation investment in tropical research remains complex (Sharon O’Keeffe)
- Israeli irrigation tech trial lifts lettuce (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- WA rockmelon growers get food safety advice (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Aldi supermarket strategy is unlikely to challenge Woolworths and Coles (Tom Osegowitsch and Angela McCabe, The Conversation)
- Coles plastic bag backflip leaves us worse off than before (Kim Borg and Edwin Ip, The Conversation)
- How a humble Australian bee could help the world’s plastic problem (Jessica Hinchliffe, ABC Radio Brisbane)
The ABC has also created a central location for its reporting on the ongoing drought affecting farmers, which you can access here.
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 7 August 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!