The week’s top stories (week ending 08/05/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Relief from all corners of river debate as bipartisan deal struck (Lexi Metherell, AM)
- Greens see red over Labor stance on Murray (AAP/SBS News)
- Farmers frustrated by ‘devastating’ vegetation laws (Ian Jones, Goondiwindi Argus)
- Climate change: Ag ministers unite (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Prime agricultural land loss or booming future energy? That’s the solar planning conundrum for Victoria (Warwick Long, Vic Country Hour)
- Standard parts make up Harvey, the capsicum-picking bot (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Interest in drones leads to full time business (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Federal Government drops $20m into Tasmania’s fruit fly war chest (Fiona Blackwood, ABC News)
- New business looks to track live fruit fly data (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- New BASF insecticide to hit the market for use in horticulture, cotton (Gregor Heard, Queensland Country Life)
- Bayer highlights cucumber opportunities (Carl Collen, Eurofruit)
- Country mobile phone and internet bandwidth forces residents online in the middle of the night (Kathryn Diss and Mark Bennett, ABC News)
- Regional communications review begins (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Herb farm Freshzest goes into administration putting jobs in limbo (Emma Field, ABC Gippsland)
- Northern Territory’s largest tomato producer Kalano Farm closes (Daniel Fitzgerald, NT Country Hour)
- WA veggie growers to benefit from new export project (Lucy Jarvis, North Coast Times)
- Records squashed as tiny town Collector hosts sell-out pumpkin festival (Michael Black, ABC Radio Canberra)
- With about 6000 people heading along, Spudfest has certainly cemented itself as a Trentham institution (Brendan Wrigley, The Advocate)
- The digital farmer: Using social media to bridge the urban-rural divide in Australian agriculture (Courtney Fowler, WA Country Hour)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 8 May 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!