The week’s top stories (week ending 28/08/18)
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 to resign from Parliament on Friday (Dan Conifer, ABC News)
- ‘No real appetite’: former farmers chief lashes ministers over climate link to drought (Gabrielle Chan, The Guardian)
- Prime Minister leaves climate change debate for ‘another day’ during drought trip (Anna Henderson, ABC Rural)
- Farmers warn weekend rain won’t stop drought-related food price rises (Brad Thompson, Australian Financial Review)
- Drought continues for NSW farmers despite welcome rain drenching parts of state (Nick Sas and Lauren Pezet, ABC News)
- Seasonal workers flock west as drought shrinks number of casual jobs in the eastern states (Lily Hoffmann, WA Country Hour)
- WA Hort Update pulls a crowd (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- WA growers need to unite, says Dr David McKinna (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Growers anxious for end to fruit fly emergency (Libby Bingham, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Latest food recalls show need for better importing rules (Peter McRae, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Coca-Cola Amatil flags potential sale of struggling Shepparton SPC cannery (Mahalia Dobson and Rhiannon Tuffield, ABC Goulburn Murray)
- Native plant buffer zones support predatory bugs (Jeanette Severs, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Still not sure what to do with cauliflower? Use this guide (Grace Jennings-Edquist, ABC Life)
- Organic growers embrace fresh and value added (Gail Thomas, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Smashed avo: An overnight hit in just 25 years (Ashley Walmsley, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- How to get children to eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables (Yasmine Probst and Ruth Crowe, The Conversation)
- Fermented food growing vegetable and fruit consumption (Jeanette Severs, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Slow food: The international movement encouraging sustainable and ethical farming (Jennifer Nichols, ABC Landline)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 28 August 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!