The week’s top stories (week ending 14/02/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Horticulture Council: National Farmers’ Federation-led group formed (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Fruit fly Tasmania: Trapping stepped up after new find (Roger Hanson, The Weekly Times)
- Backpackers struggling to find accommodation in fruit-picking season (Carla Howarth, ABC News)
- Heatwaves send temperatures soaring in many parts of Australia, but what are they? (Kate Doyle and Ben Deacon, ABC Weather)
- Beetroot juice under the microscope to find link to increasing exercise capacity, reducing obesity (Robert Virtue, ABC News)
- University of Tasmania Professor Steven Smith awarded Chinese fellowship (Roger Hanson, The Weekly Times)
- WA band’s veggie songs capture hearts and minds at Glastonbury and the UN (Aaron Fernandes, ABC Great Southern)
- Queensland Strawberries launches education campaign after fruit fly larvae biosecurity breaches (Jennifer Nichols, ABC Rural)
- Ice-cream, jam and a round trip to Melbourne: How Tasmanian fruit growers are responding to fruit fly (Margot Kelly, ABC Rural)
- Panama TR4 confirmed on third Tully Valley farm (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan in danger of collapse, authority boss says (Dominique Schwartz, ABC Rural)
- Beekeepers and residents frustrated after council poisons up to 50,000 bees (Edwina Seselja, ABC News)
- Mango lovers get your texting fingers ready (Kim Chappell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Grassroots focus for new ag minister (Colin Bettles, Farm Online)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 14 February 2018.