State News

Tomatoes deliver profits

06 Feb 12 | TOMATOES are only weeks off harvest at Somerset, Tasmania.

26 Jan 12 | IMPROVING trade relationships and increasing exports is the aim for the Victorian citrus industry when they visit Thailand and South Korea this month on a Department of Primary Industriesled delegation.

Horticulture - General

TFGA pushes viable hemp industry

13 Jan 12 | IF TASMANIA is to develop a viable hemp-growing industry for both food and fibre use, it is imperative that the state and federal governments work together to make it possible, according to Tasmanian farmers.

Horticulture - General

Healthy eating in the new year as easy as veggie pie

11 Jan 12 | With the silly season wrapping up and a fresh year ahead, many Australians will now be thinking about making some positive lifestyle changes for 2012. Topping the list of new year’s resolutions will be getting into shape, detoxing and eating healthier foods.

Horticulture - General

Potato extension program launched

10 Jan 12 | AUSVEG has launched a three-year initiative which aims to enhance communication within Australia’s potato industry and promote clearer information exchange.

Horticulture - General

Storm-damaged strawberry farms caught in netting row

06 Jan 12 | STRAWBERRY growers in the Yarra Valley who lost much of their crop to the Christmas Day storms that swept across the state want to be able to erect hail nets more easily in order to prevent damage.

Horticulture - Fruit

Collective bargaining for tomato industry

16 Dec 11 | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is proposing to allow members of Australian Processing Tomato Growers, a branch of the Victorian Farmers Federation, to bargain collectively on the terms and conditions of their contracts with their processors.

Horticulture - General