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:
- Fears over people in fruit fly zones sharing produce over social media (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Meet the farmer growing your vegetables (The Mercury)
- Verdict still unclear in Fair Work horticulture award case (Seymour Telegraph)
- PotatoLink promises to communicate extension outcomes to industry (North Queensland Register)
- Rural Bank paints hopeful picture for horticulture in 2021 Australian agriculture mid-year outlook (The Land)
- Regional employers are struggling to find workers to fill vacancies (Jimboomba Times)
- Give ag visa a test run, says AFPA (Queensland Country Life)
- Prices for key essentials like petrol, vegetables and fruit spike in June (The New Daily)
- Citrus exports held up by shipping problems but demand from China still strong (ABC News)