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:
- Ausveg gets in early with federal election priorities list (The Land)
- Zerella Fresh pushes for South Australia’s COVID-19 isolation period to mirror national rules (ABC News)
- Anthony Di Pietro, Michael Simonetta, Frank Mitolo: Who are Australia’s horticulture giants? (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- SA officials deny there is a statewide potato shortage (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Billions at stake: How our ag industry has been hit by Omicron (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Central Queensland farmers concerned over proposed large-scale solar projects on farms (ABC News)
- Locusts, grasshoppers converge on western Queensland paddocks (ABC News)
- Backpacker return incentive good news for fruit and vegetable price (ABC News)
- ScoMo announces new plan to help stock supermarket shelves (News.com.au)
- Victorian farm groups go it alone and order own supply of RATs (Beaudesert Times)
- Agriculture on the edge: How the billion dollar industry has been hit by Omicron (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Calls for new ag visa to extend to grains and shearing industries amid critical labour shortages (The West Australian)
- IFAM to deliver millions of RATs to Australia (Daily Cargo News)