The week’s top stories (week ending 09/01/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Labor calls on Agriculture Minister David Littleproud to reverse APVMA relocation (Tom McIlroy, The Canberra Times)
- TPP needs a national response, forum hears (Jeanette Severs, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Hort Innovation in “solid position” on back of grower advice (John Lloyd, North Queensland Register)
- Can rural RDCs survive another twenty-five years? (Mick Keogh, Queensland Country Life)
- Tasmanian cherry producer uses technology, social media to combat rip-off merchants in Asia (Emily Street, ABC News)
- Purple sweetcorn delivers phytonutrient health benefits (Queensland Country Life)
- Spray drift damages 6,000 hectares of NSW cotton on Christmas Day (Sally Bryant, David Claughton and Michael Condon, NSW Country Hour)
- Young farmers face the challenges of agriculture to follow their love for the land (Rochelle Kirkham, The Courier)
- How Gympie bee keepers are helping save the nation’s farmers (Arthur Gorrie, The Gympie Times)