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:
- Selwyn Snell to retire as Chair of Hort Innovation (Hort Innovation media release)
- How the pandemic could be making it harder to get food from farm to plate (ABC Rural)
- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture’s Masterclass in Horticultural Business goes digital (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- COVID-19 tests return negative results in Bundaberg, as pressure builds to reopen border (ABC Wide Bay)
- Branch Out campaign pushes consumers to try new items (Good Fruit And Vegetables)
- Unions, farmers unite in potato wars (Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Woolworths to replace some plastic fresh produce packaging with cardboard (news.com.au)
- Seasonal workers are being tested for COVID-19 in the latest phase of screening (ABC Riverland)
- Victorian farmers donate to Foodshare to support community struggling with COVID-19 fallout (ABC Victorian Country Hour)
- Cucumber prices to rise as dust storm from ex-Tropical Cyclone Mangga wipes out WA crops (ABC WA Country Hour)
- Elanco-Bayer merger prompts ACCC to test market on competition concerns (Farm Online)
- Worries linger over lack of Q-Fly project funding in Goulburn Murray Valley (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- BOM data for autumn is in and Australia has come out looking warm (ABC Weather)
- Paving a new era for ag gatherings | EDITORIAL (Good Fruit And Vegetables)
- Fair Farms backed by all three major retailers (ABC NSW Country Hour)
- COVID-19 disruptions to Ballarat mushroom farmers change the way products are sold (ABC Victorian Country Hour)