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:
- Uncertainty on EU imports (The Advocate)
- Future challenges to plant protection product availability in Australia (Horti Daily)
- Woolworths launches new range with convenient vegetable meals (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- AUSVEG thanks retiring Hort Innovation Chair Selwyn Snell for his service to the industry (AUSVEG press release)
- ‘Stoked to get soaked’: Burnett farmers jumping for joy but more rain needed (ABC Wide Bay)
- Growers appeal to supermarkets to discount ‘tsunami’ of passionfruit (ABC Rural)
- Coronavirus spreads among fruit and vegetable packers, worrying U.S. officials (Reuters)
- World Potato Congress Inc. announces three new Directors to its Board (Potato News Today)
- Concerns fruit picker in Bundaberg with coronavirus knew he was at risk before travelling (ABC Wide Bay)
- Vanstone Produce gets $250,000 to expand business, supporting 25 new jobs (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- NSW Farmers alone in Murray Darling Basin Plan royal commission call (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Potato is the best in NSW, according to those in the know (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Insecticide treatment for fall armyworm trialed on maize crops in North Queensland (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Strawberries could be ploughed in with overseas markets unreachable due to COVID-19 flight reductions (ABC WA Country Hour)