The week’s top stories (week ending 17/04/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Tasmanian blueberry growers count cost of fruit fly outbreak (Damian McIntyre and Tim Morgan, ABC News)
- Listeria outbreak: Contaminated rockmelons exported to nine countries (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Farmers hit hard by driest period in a decade in New South Wales (Tim Fookes, ABC Central West)
- 40 degrees in April: Why this autumn has felt more like summer (Ben Deacon, ABC Weather)
- Murray-Darling Basin: Barwon-Darling to get environmental flows (AAP)
- New business model invites customers to share risks and rewards of farming (Jess Davis and Tom Nancarrow, ABC Rural)
- Donald Trump is exploring re-joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, senators say (ABC News)
- Are Australians losing the connection between farmers and food? (Dilvin Yasa, SBS News)
- Shipping container farms bring food source closer to city dwellers (Jessica Schremmer, ABC Rural)
- How to save Australia’s remaining farmland as demand for housing continues (David Claughton, NSW Country Hour)
- Ag land vs housing: Is it time to go Dutch in Sydney Basin? (Alex Druce, The Armidale Express)
- Mareeba to host the inaugural Efficient Farming Forum next week (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- The Netherlands is making food out of your waste (Lucy Rennick, ABC News)
- New Research Centre to fight food waste (Fresh Plaza)
- Farmers warned to be cautious when using drones (University of Queensland)
- Draslovka Group introduces EDN Fumigas to Australian farmers (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Cane farmer draws on Basque heritage to encourage female farm succession (Tom Major, ABC Rural)
- Could Australia’s first red flesh apples turn around decline in apple consumption? (Tom Nancarrow, ABC Rural)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 17 April 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!