The week’s top stories (week ending 27/03/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Fruit fly larvae found in a grapefruit in Tasmania’s south (The Weekly Times)
- Rockmelon industry ramps up food safety guidelines to restore consumer confidence following listeria outbreak (Kallee Buchanan, ABC Rural)
- Canavan rejects claims of excessive Basin water purchase (Colin Bettles, North Queensland Register)
- Turnbull launches report to turbocharge farm’s $100b 2030 goal (Colin Bettles, North Queensland Register)
- Better ag export networks start with more interstate sea freight (Andrew Marshall, Farm Online)
- Get hort code-compliant before it’s too late (Pat Hannan, Queensland Country Life)
- Dry hits east coast Tasmanian communities waiting for irrigation dam to fill (Carla Howarth, ABC News)
- Have a say on [quad] bikes (Taylor Jurd, Western Magazine)
- Butler Market Gardens focused on sustainable farming (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Casual workers employed on fruit fly crisis not paid for weeks, union claims (Rhiana Witson, ABC News)
- Victorian govt to pump another $15m into agtech (Stuart Corner, IoT Hub)
- Australian ag-tech awarded (Camellia Aebischer, Fruitnet)
- Sydney Royal Easter Show displays robots that will change future of farming (Kathleen Calderwood, ABC News)
- Will Amazon revolutionise food distribution? (Fresh Produce Journal)
- Harvest Helpers reducing backyard fruit waste and feeding needy (Carla Howarth, ABC News)
- Biosecurity message to be shared in virtual educational event (The Rural)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 27 March 2018.