Two of Australia’s best-know suppliers of fresh fruit and vegetables, LaManna Group and Premier Fruits Group, will be merging from July 2016. Newly appointed Chairman of the combined business, Brian...

Silk may have a second-use outside the textiles industry with scientists discovering it can persevere fruits. Discovered by scientists from Tufts University in the US, the researchers found bananas and...

Vegetable industry representative groups AUSVEG and vegetablesWA have labelled the AUD $5 billion Northern Australian Fund “unfair”, saying it excludes valuable regional centres. The Federal Government...

There is a growing demand for fruit and vegetables across the Western world, thanks to increased awareness of their nutritional and health benefits. But we’ve always been taught they might not be safe...

A continuing decline in the number of backpackers visiting Australia under the Working Holiday Maker program is a threat to the future of the vegetable industry according to vegetable representative body...

With Melbourne’s population expected to jump to at least 7 million by 2050, new research from a collaborative research project report “Foodprint Melbourne” says Melbourne will need 60 per cent more...

A report from Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) released today claims that Australia’s domestic wholesale vegetable prices were 6 per cent lower on average...

Australians are willing to pay more for loose washed and organic loose potatoes according to new consumer research.   The Potato Tracker report, conducted by consumer research organisation Colmar...

Horticulture representative body AUSVEG has released data showing that less Australians might be doing a weekly grocery shop but they are still managing to eat more fresh vegetables.   The study...

The latest study from AUSVEG’s Project Harvest has found that Australians are buying more vegetables which are convenient to use and do not create left-overs.   Project Harvest found over the last...