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:
- Fertiliser giant Yara aims to decarbonise food production with green hydrogen trial in Pilbara (ABC Rural)
- PMA A-NZ welcomes new Chair (Fresh Plaza)
- Backpacker stream dries up causing looming rural labour shortage (ABC Rural)
- Australian growers call for countrymen to ‘get off the couch’ or risk fruit shortages (Fresh Plaza)
- Cost of agriculture university courses to halve, National Farmers Federation praises policy as ‘commonsense’ (ABC Rural)
- Aussie ag tech gets $11m injection from Yamaha (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Seed potato growers on Kangaroo Island hit hard by bushfires (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- NSW water transparency bill seeks to end ‘conspiracy theories’ but faces backlash (ABC Broken Hill)
- Backpacker abuse and food shortages in Europe: COVID-19s impact on farming (SBS Dateline)
- ABARES says weather conditions improve but prices fall for farmers amid coronavirus fallout (ABC Rural)
- International export opportunities for FNQ growers (North Queensland Register)
- Australia looks to lessen reliance on China, with UK free trade talks to commence (ABC News)
- Grain farmers worried UK trade deal not enough to replace lost barley trade with China (ABC Rural)
- PMA’s State of the Industry report outlines post-COVID-19 trends for fresh produce (Fresh Plaza)
- Fuel move a step in the right direction but Aussie supplies a must (Farm Weekly)
- Australian research into new fresh produce postharvest treatment using supercharged air (Fresh Plaza)
- Vegetable growers looking to accelerate switch to mechanical harvesting due to coronavirus crisis (Fresh Plaza)
- Bundaberg’s coronavirus response praised but vigilance still key as fruit picker recovers (ABC Wide Bay)
- Netherlands: the potato surplus begins to decrease (Fresh Plaza)
- US potato production plants to layoff over 600 (Fresh Plaza)