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:
- Katherine farmer appointed to Ausveg board (Stock & Land)
- CSIRO takes scientific approach to getting kids to eat veggies (Stock & Land)
- Calling Queenslanders to join the harvest trail (Queensland Country Life)
- Melon growing areas like Katherine want to keep pests and diseases out (North Queensland Register)
- Solved: The reason why foreign ‘mystery seeds’ are being mailed to Australian homes (The New Daily)
- Australia: Vanuatu still to greenlight pilot program (ABC News)
- Citrus producer holds fears for seasonal worker supply (Sunraysia Daily)
- SA growers offered new resource to tackle soil acidification (Stock Journal)
- Only 1 in 5 fruit and veggie firms pass Fair Work audit on second try (Sydney Morning Herald)
- AU: Vegetable growers encourage educators to Taste & Learn to get kids to eat more veggies (Hortidaily)
- Managing vegetable weeds the focus for online resources (Queensland Country Life)
- Agriculture ready for return to economic prosperity (The Australian)
- Business pushing hard to open state borders, but leading economists urge caution (ABC News)
- Rabobank warns of China ag trade downturn (Queensland Country Life)
- VFF continues to fight for border common-sense (Stock & Land)
- David Littleproud’s supermarkets inquiry a political game (The Australian)