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:
- NSW, Victorian and Tasmanian flooding takes toll on horticulture producers (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Basin’s man-made flood plan: 80,000ML a day at SA border (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Rising populations and development in Sydney’s west threatens food bowl (ABC Online)
- Initial $165 million government road repair bill likely to go higher (Stock & Land)
- Breaking Point: The real cost of Australia’s worker shortage (ABC Online)
- Popular supermarket item ‘wiped’ from shelves amid potato shortage (News.com.au)
- Treasurer Jim Chalmers reveals flood cleanup $3b fund to help; grocery prices set to jump (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Potato chip shortage hits Australian supermarkets after devastating floods (7news.com.au)
- Importers, exporters, farmers look for new way, funding to keep pests and disease like foot-and-mouth out (ABC Online)
- ‘I would have rather lost my home’: A farmer laments his flooded crop (The Age)
- Widespread floods will force inflation above eight per cent for fruit and vegetables, treasurer says (ABC Online)
- New agricultural working group meets for first time to tackle labour shortage crisis (Countryman)
- Fair farms focuses on compliance with workplace laws (Queensland Country Life)