Growers in the south of Western Australia are looking at an increasingly bleak future as a key local water source runs nearly dry. Water levels in the Glen Mervyn Dam, 200 kilometres south of Perth, have dropped by more than 80 per cent over the past year to sit at just 0.13 gigalitres. It has…
A native bug has been destroying Victorian olive crops, with some growers losing almost their entire annual harvest. Michael Freudenstein, who farms between the north-east Victorian towns of Myrtleford and Bright, said he had never seen his 1,000-tree olive grove so bare. “This is the first year we’ve had an attack of this lace bug,…