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:
- Most fresh flowers you buy are grown overseas and they could be a biosecurity timebomb (ABC News)
- Far North Queensland farmer cultivates easy to cut neon pumpkin variety from ‘field of thousands’ (ABC Rural)
- Govt urged to act as thousands of seasonal workers leave each week (The Land)
- Greater Melbourne schools get virtual farm tours from real farmers (Stock & Land)
- Peeling back puzzle of potato pathogen (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Unions want working holidaymaker visa axed, urge farmers to hire unemployed Australians (ABC News)
- On lookout for labour as hort harvests approach (Stock Journal)
- Thomas Foods-Mitolo potato deal allowed to go ahead (The Australian)
- Labour shortage issues could become worse after Federal Court decision on backpacker tax (Shepparton News)
- Federal Court rules in favour of ATO with backpacker tax (ABC News)
- Local food producers to benefit from new program (5RM)
- Vanuatu solution to farm worker shortage (2GB)
- Western Australian study looks to put dollar value on horticulture crop water use (North Queensland Register)
- Shoppers urged to be patient as Victorian coronavirus restrictions impact food supply (ABC News)
- Water brokers want tighter Murray Darling trading rules, too (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Vic farms need safety overhaul: lawyer (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Corcoran takes up Plant Health Australia top job (Queensland Country Life)
- State border closures causing problems for some farmers (ABC AM radio)
- Australian first: NSW floodplain harvesting policy unveiled (The Land)