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:
- Lack of fruit pickers, natural disasters to blame for rising fruit and vegetable prices (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Pacific scheme brings labour to SA (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Calls to change visa rules as undocumented workers risk missing out on vaccinations (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- SA planning new quarantine facility for international students (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Our potato industry faces global competition (The Farmer Magazine)
- Biosecurity winning against exotic ants at Brisbane port (The National Tribune)
- Vegetable Prices (Prime7)
- States urged to join pre-travel quarantine trial for seasonal workers (The Canberra Times)
- Digital tools to help Australian businesses (The National Tribune)
- Piece rates driven up in desperate search for strawberry planters (Queensland Country Life)