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:
- Forward planning is critical in preventing on-farm labour shortages (Mirage News)
- Jobs going in regional Queensland, so why doesn’t anyone want them? (ABC News)
- Fruit and Veg Risk Rotting in Australia on Second Covid-19 Wave (Bloomberg)
- TAFTA a boon for Aussie ‘taters (Stock and Land)
- Loss of backpackers creates farm labour shortages (ABC AM)
- Peter Walsh wants solution on seasonal workers border ban (Shepparton News)
- Tasmanian farms the new classrooms (Stock and Land)
- On-farm food loss in Tas revealed (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Seasonal workers on a visa considered ‘high-risk’ of COVID-19, banned from travelling across the Victorian/NSW border (MSN Australia)
- McCain begins journey to becoming greener production site (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Far out Brussels sprout! (FreshPlaza)
- Local Broccoli bound for Singapore (Queensland Country Life)
- Inland Rail approvals fast-tracked despite legal action by NSW Farmers and CWA (The Land)
- ‘Hands on’ horticulture soil workshops for Qld (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Biosecurity under inspection again (North Queensland Register)
- NT bee numbers low after back-to-back dry wet seasons (ABC Rural)