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:
- National Farmers Federation encourages ministers to look beyond Murray Darling Basin targets (The National Tribune)
- Dire situation on Victorian farms as state braces for another soaking (3AW)
- ‘All sorts of problems’: Why you could be paying more for groceries (News.com.au)
- Data questioned in draft reports regarding labour, accommodation shortages (Queensland Country Life)
- Low potato stocks have Adelaide fish and chip shops facing hot chip shortage (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Victorian Fresh Produce Network and Safer Farms Families & Futures set up improve farm safety (Stock & Land)
- More clean water for agriculture and horticulture in times of drought (Mirage News)
- First step for Australian biologists as study begins to grow durable and sustainable plants in space (ABC Online)
- How big pesticide reaches into every element of rural life in Australia (Australia News)
- Citrus industry calls for Victoria to appoint a commissioner for horticultural labour and accommodation (ABC Online)
- Communities on flood watch in northern Victoria and southern NSW (ABC Online)
- NSW farmers unite to address freight rail failures from paddock to port (ABC Online)
- Novel mode of action insecticide for tough vegetable crop pests (Stock Journal)
- Getting farm exports back on track (The Land)
- Shepparton Council to attend Asia Fruit Logistica 2022 (Council Magazine)
- ‘Best Before’ labels scrutinized as food waste concerns grow (Daily Mail)