The week’s top stories (week ending 26/06/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Migrant workers’ exploitation can be fixed by unions and farmers, says expert (Marty McCarthy, Landline)
- ‘We can’t afford to pay it’: Farmers warn of grocery price rises if unions win horticultural wage hike (Marty McCarthy, 7.30)
- Hort Innovation announces Matt Brand as its new chief executive (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, The Rural)
- Fiona Simson bolsters NFF horticulture position (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- A backyard invention may spell curtains for fruit fly (Cherie von Hörchner, Victoria Country Hour)
- ANZ admits issues over Landmark customers (AAP/9 News)
- Banking royal commission: ‘Destructive’ rural receivers won’t be questioned (Marty McCarthy, ABC News)
- Banking royal commission starts farm finance hearings: As it happened (Michael Janda, ABC News)
- Scientist accuses Murray-Darling Basin Authority of interfering with research in scathing account (Isabel Dayman, ABC News)
- Bees are dying. What can we do about it? (Stephen Smiley, The Signal)
- Family farm succession: talk early, talk often (Sabra Lane, AM)
- Forget the price tag: ‘pay what you feel’ that tomato is worth (Carolyn Webb, The Age)
- Aussies want native foods (Ali Kuchel, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Broccoli coffee touted by CSIRO as a solution to Australia’s health problems (Dominic Elsome, Gatton Star)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 26 June 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!