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:
- Ausveg backs plan to help fruit and vegetable growers (Inside FMCG)
- Hort Council pitches 10-point worker approach (The Land)
- Health & Fitness with Gordon Lynch: Vegetables (ABC Radio Melbourne)
- ‘This is killing us’: Andrews’ road map sparks dismay in country Victoria (The Age)
- Holdout states told to wave farmers through (The Australian) – subscription required
- Farmer frustration as National Cabinet fails to agree on Agricultural Worker Movement Code (MSN Australia)
- Vegetables – great for today, even better for tomorrow (The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation)
- Call for Australians to backpack in their own backyards and stop fruit going to rot (ABC News)
- Australian fruit being left to rot amid shortage of pickers (Sky News Australia)
- Suspect seeds in the mail but don’t chuck them out (Katherine News)
- VFF welcomes NSW border easing (Sunraysia Daily) – subscription required
- More nations rated as high stink bug risk (7NEWS.com.au)
- Border news angers farmer leaders (The Weekly Advertiser)
- First planeload of mango pickers from Vanuatu lands in Darwin today (Katherine News)
- Tasmania’s “Harvest Moon” says it all | OPINION (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Food supplies, $2.3b at risk if borders stay shut (Fraser Coast Chronicle)
- ‘National leadership needed to solve ag permit row’ (Queensland Country Life)
- Australian farmers harvests will ‘rot in the paddock’ as backpackers have left (Sky News Australia)
- National Labour Hire Licensing vital amid workforce shortages (Mirage News)
- NBN report: how to use internet to earn 15.6 billion more farm dollars (Stock & Land)
- Real estate fund primed for a growing share of ag property assets (Good Fruit & Vegetables)