December 2011

It’s certainly an honour to be President again after 20 years and I’d like to thank everybody sincerely for their encouraging words.

During the time I’ve served on the VGA Executive Committee in Treasurer, Junior and Senior Vice President positions there have certainly been plenty of changes, both in the field and with politics and administration issues.

A strong membership of our Vegetable Growers Association is essential so that we can move forward together, promoting our products through all current and future channels available to us.

We must convince consumers that our products, which are still grown here in their backyard, are vital for them to remain healthy, smart, energetic and good looking.

Veggies tick all the right boxes for a longer life to share with their families.

Talk to you all in the next newsletter and have a very Merry Christmas and New Year.

Eat and Enjoy Life..

David Wallace – President, VGA-Victoria

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Contents :

New VGA President elected at AGM
A vegetable grower from Keilor, David Wallace, was elected as the new VGA President at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held recently …

Update on finding solutions to manual handling injuries
Outcomes from the manual handling project, being conducted by the Victorian Farm Safety Centre in conjunction with the Victorian vegetable industry, are starting to emerge according to Tony Imeson, Executive Officer of VGA Vic …

Bill Bulmer joins VGA executive
Lindenow grower, Bill Bulmer, was elected as a member of the VGA Executive Committee at the recent VGA Annual General Meeting …

Food safety demystified
If you want to be able to sell your product to the retailers you will need to have a program in place. If you want your market agent to have a wide choice of buyers, you need to have a program in place …

Photos AGM & Regional Dinner
A manual handling project being conducted by the Victorian Farm Safety Centre, in conjunction with the Victorian vegetable industry, is on track to find solutions to the major causes of injuries associated with hazardous manual handling …

Lettuce harvester study tour to California and Italy
A lettuce harvester tour was organised and led by VGA IDO East, Slobodan Vujovic, and four lettuce growers participated …

Mildura growers meeting
September saw a collaborative meeting organised by VGA & NSWFA Industry Development Officers and NSW & VIC DPI which involved vegetable growers from the Mildura and Dareton region, covering several topics important to the industry …

Veg power in groups
Rocky Lamattina is 54-years-old and farms at Clyde. He grows bunching lines, namely spring onions, radish and parsley and is in his fifth year as an active member of the Executive Committee of the Vegetable Growers Association of Victoria. …

Vegetable training and apprenticeships
The search is on for guidance from vegetable employers on the types of training and accreditation to be offered to employees …

Green snail
National and state biosecurity processes are being implemented for green snail detection near Cobram in Northern Victoria …

VGA Website
Our VGA Vic website promotes the critical and often undervalued role of vegetable growers in their daily struggle to reliably produce the healthy food we all enjoy at our dinner tables.

The site regularly attracts over 3000 visitors each month. Searchable content has expanded to almost 2000 pages of interesting articles, over 300 R&D report summaries, as well as topical news and events …