The week’s top stories (week ending 11/09/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- One grower’s glut is another’s gain: Sweet potato donations help farmers through drought (Eliza Goetze, ABC News)
- Farmers fear Roundup will be killed off as lawsuits pile up against Bayer after US cancer ruling (Sue Lannin, ABC News)
- Roundup: One weed killer, multiple scientific opinions (Pablo Vinales, SBS News)
- What is ‘meat’? Plant-based food producers sue US state over law that criminalises certain uses of the word (Isabella Pittaway, ABC News)
- Taste Australia campaign to go to 10 countries (Queensland Country Life)
- Murray Darling Basin Plan gets a wake-up call (Mike Foley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)