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:
- Victorian seasonal workers locked out of NSW as border controls tighten (ABC News)
- AgTech survey shows gaps ahead of ‘revolution’ (Stock Journal)
- ‘Hands on’ horticulture soil workshops (Queensland Country Life)
- Forum downgrades juice health benefits (Stock Journal)
- Victorian grower has a real passion for veggies (The Land)
- Nation’s bounty ‘to wither on the vine’ without more seasonal workers, COVID-easing (The Australian)
- Avocados and broccoli jet off from Wellcamp to Singapore (The Cronicle) – subscription required
- Aussie Farmers Fighting Fund at risk with class action changes (The Land)
- New independent chair for Potatoes SA arrives (Stock Journal)
- How do you explain to consumers, and retailers, a notion? (The Land)
- Organic way to grow the economy (2GB)
- North Queensland pumpkins heading for Japanese market (Farm Online)
- Fall armyworm detection in western Queensland sparks pasture concerns (ABC News)
- Incentives to attract Aussie harvest workers under discussion (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Safeguarding the Future of Tasmania’s Pea Industry (Tasmanian Times)
- Stop China rift getting too ‘dramatic’, says National Farmers Federation (The Australian)
- ‘It’s like another kick in the guts’: Restaurant owners in Melbourne on how they’re tackling the 2nd round of lockdowns (Business Insider Australia)
- Farming101: Aussie kids to learn about farming (Get Farming)
- National Farmers Federation’s blueprint for agriculture-led recovery (The Australian)