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:
- Victoria’s Covid industry shutdown to throw one in seven of its workers out of employment (The Guardian)
- Agriculture unaffected in Vic lockdown (Farm Machinery & Equipment)
- Without seasonal workers, Australia may face a hungry summer (The Guardian)
- Plans needed now for worker shortage (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- NSW gets hort workers but planning needed (Queensland Country Life)
- Opinon: Farmers most to lose if China misjudged (The Land)
- TAFTA a boon for Aussie ‘taters (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Overseas travel restrictions could cause farm labour issues (Gatton Star) – subscription required
- Urgent action needed to clarify border confusion (Stock and Land)
- Pandemic restrictions leave mango industry in the lurch (Future Focus)
- Australia potato peril: Industry highlights price drop as main concern from post-COVID-19 EU fries dumping threat (FoodNavigator-Asia.com)
- SA hort sector calls for flood mitigation funding (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- ‘We couldn’t get people off the couch’: Farm worker shortage looms despite rising unemployment (ABC News)
- Murray-Darling farmers pumped hundreds of gigalitres after flows arrived, analysis finds (ABC News)
- ACCC proposes federal takeover of Murray–Darling Basin water markets (The Guardian)
- The cost of fruit & vegetable could rise up to 60% (2GB)
- Murray-Darling Basin’s murky trade in water (The Australian)
- SuniTAFE aims to fill agriculture worker gap (The Guardian)
- Spuds you like: Potato Photographer of the Year – in pictures (The Guardian)