A southern Queensland pineapple farmer says this is the strangest season he's seen in 40 years 
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THE floods may have devastated the Queensland community in January but it didn’t stop the generosity flowing at the Brisbane Markets Mango Auction today with the season’s first symbolic tray of mangoes selling for $30,000, all in the name of charity.  
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EATING plenty of fruits and vegetables could alter a gene that puts people at risk of heart disease, Canadian scientists found. 
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METCASH has decided to take control of the disputed Franklins stores ahead of next month's ACCC appeal, having completed the deal this morning. 
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Australians will see a dramatic increase in the amount of blueberries for sale this summer. This month, Japan has banned the importation of Australian blueberries, because it's concerned about Mediterranean fruit fly. Coupled with a harvest two months later than usual, due to excessively wet conditions earlier this year, 25 per cent more berries will be dumped on the domestic market. Peter McPherson, from Australia's largest blueberry producer, Berry Exchange, says wheels are in motion to reopen the Japanese market. "The Japanese authorities are working with us and Biosecurity Australia to try and find a solution," he said. 
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Queensland's pineapple growers are poised to begin a better than expected harvest. 
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BANANA prices are set to drop sharply, as the industry's north Queensland heartland bounces back from the battering it took from a monster cyclone in February.  
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The competition watchdog will appeal a Federal Court judgment which enabled grocery wholesaler Metcash to buy the Franklins supermarket business. 
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METCASH has won its appeal against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, clearing the way for it to proceed with the acquisition of Franklins stores from Pick n Pay. 
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A new private member’s Bill to be tabled this week to Australian Parliament would, if passed, require Australia’s major supermarkets to reveal what percentage of the retail price of their fresh produce goes to the farmers. 
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