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:
- Why potato farmers are stuck with billions of pounds of potatoes (Business Insider Australia)
- Working holiday inquiry must make backpacker program more attractive (North Queensland Register)
- Unemployed Aussies could be encouraged to do FARM WORK (Daily Mail)
- Redundant workers must look at their regional options, even temporarily (The Daily Telegraph)
- SA farmers receive grants for netting (7NEWS.com.au)
- Consumers urged to support local potato growers (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Farm leaders seek to quell alarm over future of quad bikes (Stock Journal)
- COVID-19 pandemic leads to 50,000 fewer backpackers in Australia, prompting parliamentary inquiry (ABC Rural)
- Australian food products now require proof of virus-free status before entering China (ABC Victorian Country Hour)
- Producers cautious as restaurants begin to reopen in South Australia (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Fresh produce industry suffers more primary production losses than in post-harvest (Fresh Plaza)
- Australia: Cold food chain waste costing $3.8 billion (Fresh Plaza)
- University fee cut for agriculture courses prompts warning that education quality might suffer (ABC Rural)
- A global horticulture vision (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Broccoli and cauliflower prices to ease after record high (The Weekly Times) – subscription required