The week’s top stories (week ending 29/05/18)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Horticulture Award: Asparagus grower concerned about proposal (Alexandra Laskie, The Weekly Times)
- Agri Labour Australia suspended from government scheme amid underpayment, unsafe work claims (Sally Brooks, Pacific Beat/ABC News)
- SA’s top horticulture growers line up for national awards (Stock Journal)
- Murray-Darling: State plan to give irrigators water ‘free-for-all’ could threaten wetlands (Michael Slezak, ABC News)
- Bureau of Meteorology climate outlook: Drier than average June possible (Allan Thompson, Madeleine Stuchbery and Kate Dowler, The Weekly TImes)
- WA research finds disease-carrying insects are blown hundreds of kilometres to Australia (Courtney Fowler, ABC Rural)
- No more Queensland fruit fly detections in Mowbray since May 10 (Johanna Baker-Dowdell, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Invasive ‘crazy’ ant species discovered in New South Wales for first time in more than a decade (Leah White, ABC North Coast)
- Australian exporters still need to work harder at understanding Chinese business, expert says (Clint Jasper, ABC Rural)
- Farm safety on the agenda after this Merriwa farmer took matters into his own hands (Lily Mayers, ABC News)
- Naked Farmer tackling mental illness one pair of undies at a time (Jo Prendergast and Jessica Hayes, ABC Mid West and Wheatbelt)
- Bayer introduces online GAP course (Carl Collen, Eurofruit)
- UK supermarket chain Tesco to ditch best-before dates (Benedict Brook, news.com.au)
- Research from 10-year study finds people with a plant-based diet score better (Stephanie Bedo, news.com.au)
- ‘More nutrients, fewer chemicals’: Urban farmer turns his backyard into a market garden (ABC Mid North Coast, Emma Siossian)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 29 May 2018. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!