The week’s top stories (week ending 23/01/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Research finds agriculture among most dangerous [industries] (Jim Aloust, NewsMail)
- ‘Our own personal cyclone’ as severe thunderstorm rips through WA farming community of Cunderdin (Molly Schmidt and Andrew Collins, ABC Great Southern)
- Royal Flying Doctor Service warns rural mental health services in ‘crisis’ (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- Bureau of Meteorology weather insights from unusual year
(Mike Foley, Farm Online) - Pineapple growers hit out at Golden Circle for not coming to their aid during crisis (Alice Pohlner, The Weekly Times)
- Genetic modification laws set for shake-up, with health and agriculture research industries to benefit (Marty McCarthy, ABC Rural)
- Protecting against Queensland fruit fly (Riverine Herald)
- Tasmania’s biosecurity authorities investigating fruit fly discovery on Flinders Island (Tamara Glumac, ABC News)
- APVMA public servants to get up to $55K costs in Armidale move, if they stay two years (Doug Dingwall, The Canberra Times)
- Green potatoes safe for consumers to eat, researcher says (Nick Bosly-Pask, Tasmanian Country Hour)
- Using weeds and the power of ecosystems to improve farm profitability (Jennifer Nichols, ABC Rural)
- New $25m Adelaide fertiliser site and other Incitec upgrades ready to roll (Andrew Marshall, Farm Online)
- Indian tariff argy bhaji (The West Australian)
- Home biogas: turning food waste into renewable energy (Samuel Alexander, The Conversation)
- Spudfest getting ready (Esther Lauaki, Star Weekly)
- Australian agriculture trade mission to Europe, UK (Stock & Land)