The week’s top stories (week ending 12/06/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Broccoli coffee: Scientists hope powdered veg can improve diets, cut down crop waste (Clint Jasper, ABC Rural)
- Reverse Trade Mission brings foreign buyers to Australian soil (Mirage News)
- Malcolm Turnbull’s drought tour appears to have been more policy than poetry (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- How bad is the drought and what has it been so dry? (Kate Doyle, ABC Weather)
- PM extends rural financial counselling services for a year (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- Move to renewables a ‘good thing’, Nationals’ David Littleproud says (Katharine Murphy, The Guardian)
- Investment needed to support renewables and climate change adaptation (David Thomson, Growcom/North Queensland Register)
- Time to put drought policy back on track (The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, The Goondiwindi Argus)
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Social impacts scrutinised by councils ahead of water minister meeting (Rhiannon Tuffield and Meagan Rooth, ABC Goulburn Murray)
- Murray-Darling Basin: Water NSW finds no need for new, costly dams in its 20-year projections (Michael Condon and Sally Bryant, NSW Country Hour)
- Project to deliver practical vegetable grower information (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Do some potato-growing soils suppress powdery scab? (Potato Pro)
- Coalition paper’s promise ignites calls for a local food first policy in hospitals and prisons (Peter Hunt, The Weekly Times)
- Ronni Kahn’s four-point plan to halve our annual $20 billion food waste bill (ABC News Breakfast)
- Woolworths plan to reduce produce plastic (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- The cost of convenience (Rachel Clemons, Choice)
- Green producers take vertical farm system to the world (Courtney Wilson, Landline)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 12 June 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!