The week’s top stories (week ending 13/03/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Rockmelon listeria outbreak: Industry demands grower be named after melon demand drops 90pc (David Claughton, NSW Country Hour)
- Rockmelons aim to win back consumers (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farm safety: Ross Johns calls for action on fatalities (Alice Pohlner, The Weekly Times)
- Psyllid tests could help potato market access (David Charlesworth, Harvey-Waroona Reporter)
- Sydney’s housing demand is swallowing farms on the harbour city’s fringes (Philippa McDonald, ABC News)
- Farmers driving ‘right to repair’ issue as legislative battle unfolds in US (Kit Mochan and Mark Bennett, ABC Rural)
- North Queensland farms go under after monsoon rain causes widespread flooding (Renee Cluff, ABC Rural)
- Banana prices expected to rise following north Queensland floods (Renee Cluff, ABC Rural)
- Other nations look to get in on Australia’s “clean green” hort export strategy (Ashley Walmsley, Queensland Country Life)
- What does a farmer look like? There’s a good chance she’s a woman (Danielle Grindlay, ABC Rural)
- Women’s day a timely message for ag (Mike Foley, Queensland Country Life)
- Mandatory option in Food and Grocery Code of Conduct review (Colin Bettles, Queensland Country Life)
- Australian toddlers aren’t eating enough healthy food (Aisha Dow, Sydney Morning Herald)
- How 10,000kg of food was rescued from Gympie landfill (Shelley Strachan, The Gympie Times)
- Franchisees of failed company Aussie Farmers Direct say they have lost everything (Jess Davis, ABC/The World Today)
- Counter season vegetables help improve women’s lives in north-western Vietnam (Cassandra Hough, ABC Rural)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 13 March 2018.