The week’s top media stories
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Fresh produce industry bodies reject union claims (Food & Drink Business)
- Why state border closures will drive up grocery prices (The New Daily)
- Victorian farmers warn of food ‘disaster’ if they’re not granted border crossing permits (3AW)
- Govt urged to act as worker shortage looms (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Could backpackers be among the first tourists allowed back into Australia? (ABC News)
- The union movement is ‘the Jekyll and Hyde’ of the national political narrative (Sky News Australia)
- Horticulture industry says overseas workforce a must (ABC Radio National)
- Robots won’t replace workers in labour-intensive ag sector: CSIRO (Bendigo Advertiser)
- High-tech potato processing line to be installed in Brazil (Food Processing)
- Aussie farmers plead for dedicated COVID permit system amid food shortage fears (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Farm labour shortage risks food price spike as Aussies shun harvest jobs (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Union pleas to scrap holiday visa working program is ‘ridiculous’ (Sky News Australia)
- Meet the stranded Pacific Island workers who are keeping Australians fed (ABC Rural)
- Farmers clash with union alliance over calls to end the backpacker, working holiday visa scheme (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- ‘Impossible’ to replace backpackers with Aussies (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- “Federal Government must be consistent with biosecurity and protect Australia’s plant industries” (FloralDaily)
- Griffith farmers anticipate best hort season in years (Good Fruit & Vegetables)