The week’s top stories (week ending 21/08/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Malcolm Turnbull hangs on with 48-35 leadership ballot win over Peter Dutton, reshuffle on the cards (Louise Yaxley, ABC News)
- Riverina MP Michael McCormack says he has Nationals support to remain Deputy Prime Minister amid NEG debate (Rex Martinich, The Daily Advertiser)
- Tax breaks, concessional loans focus for Federal Government’s second round of drought aid (Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times)
- ‘Don’t forget us’: farmers in Victoria’s east battle a ‘green drought’ (Kellie Lazzaro and Emma Field, ABC Gippsland)
- We need to plan for climate change’s impact on farming: Fitzgibbon (Joel Fitzgibbon, The Newcastle Herald)
- Drought could cause vegetable prices to skyrocket if Australia’s salad bowl doesn’t get summer rain (Rachel Riga, ABC News)
- Renewable energy could add hundreds of thousands of dollars to a commercial farm’s value (Lucas Forbes, ABC News)
- WA spuds set for all-clear to head east again (Jenne Brammer, The West Australian)
- Tasmanian potato industry: Smarts key in spud irrigation (Karolin MacGregor, Tasmanian Country)
- Agricultural systems can be adapted to life without glyphosate (Gregor Heard, Farm Online)
- Farmers, Greens split on herbicide use (Matt Coughlan, AAP/news.com.au)
- Farmers slam ‘reckless’ glyphosate findings of US court (Cally Dupe, The West Australian)
- Push on to break down stinky stigma of human waste as council offers free biosolids to growers (Eliza Goetze, ABC Wide Bay)
- Surveillance of varroa ends after no mites were found (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- VegDoctor encourages growers to innovate (Jeanette Severs, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Feeding Australia: Foods of tomorrow (ABC Catalyst)
- Future farms: broccoli lattes, digital dioramas and high-tech hens (Pamela Tyers, CSIROscope)
- How to eat more green (and red and yellow) vegetables (Professor Clare Collins, ABC Science)
- The year of work that goes into a long-term vegetable (Warwick Daily News)
- Snack vegetables to the fore (Carl Collen, Asiafruit)
- Sainsbury’s supermarket goes ’till-free’ (Chris Fox, BBC News)
- NZ avocado shortage leads to crime wave (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 21 August 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!