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:
- Pressure grows for new ‘ag visa’ to ease pressure on farm labour shortages (ABC News)
- Tourism Australia campaign pitches horticulture and hospitality work to Kiwis (Rural Business)
- ‘Days, not weeks’: Victoria urged to fly in Pacific workers to cover critical farm shortage (The Age)
- ‘What could go wrong?’: National Cabinet’s plan to quarantine overseas workers on farms slammed (The New Daily)
- Time to build Pacific travel bubble to boost trade agreement (The Australian)
- States to fast track Pacific deals to help labour shortage (The Australian)
- Emma Germano on being elected VFF president (ABC News)
- Markets endorse horticulture’s ethical employment program (Queensland Country Life)
- Farmers ‘despairing’ over Australia-China trade dispute, lobby group says (ABC Radio Sydney)
- Kiwis urged to come pick other fruits (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Workshop embraces Vietnamese growers | PHOTOS (Queensland Country Life)
- A global pandemic, souring trade relations, closed borders: how did farming fair in 2020? (ABC News)
- National fruit fly strategy will sustain horticulture (The Land)
- Aussie farmer forced to walk away from $240,000 worth of crops as border restrictions create worker shortage (9News)
- Australian lemon prices soar, indicating what’s ahead for fruit and vegies (The Courier Mail)
- Farmers demand urgent action on perishable goods inquiry (2GB)