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:
- Bowen growers eye ‘huge potential’ in Japanese market (Daily Mercury)
- Victorian farmers hit hard, again, as COVID-19 restrictions force restaurants to cancel orders (ABC Rural)
- Melbourne lockdown catches West Gippsland tradies, farmers, students living on city fringe (ABC Rural)
- How the bushfires scarred Australia (7news.com.au)
- Regenerative ag: What is it and are you doing it already without realising? (Stock & Land)
- Flower market back on track in southern Queensland after oversupply then shortage caused by coronavirus (ABC Rural)
- Control, eradication and preparedness for exotic leafminers in Australia (FloralDaily)
- Women in Horticulture invited on virtual bus tour (Bundaberg Now)
- Backpackers stranded by coronavirus help BlazeAid rebuild bushfire-ravaged farms and communities (MSN Australia)
- Backpackers in pandemic limbo trying to navigate border restrictions (ABC News)
- What happens to workers who lose their jobs while on a visa scheme? (ABC News)
- Farming101: Aussie kids to learn about farming (Get Farming)
- Four workers ‘escape’ from coronavirus-hit vegetable farm (MSN Australia)
- Melbourne’s fruit, vegetable and flower market review completed (Stock & Land)