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:
- Maritime union accused of ‘holding country to ransom’ over Port of Botany wharf dispute (ABC Rural)
- Industry pressure boosts juice fight (Mildura Weekly)
- AU: Greenlife Industry Australia joins Smart Farming Partnerships project (FloralDaily)
- All things bright and beautiful (Eativity News)
- Fruit, vegetable worker supply chains “labyrinthine”: FWO (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farmers urge consumers to stop panic-buying groceries as it is hurting vegetable prices (MSN Australia)
- Horticulture farmers fear losses due to tight airfreight capacity (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Security threat to Tasmania’s multi-million dollar potato industry caused by “outdated” information, growers claim (The Examiner) – subscription required
- Tasmanian Government grants SA potato company an import licence (Stock & Land)
- National Farmers Federation to operate tech hub to resolve rural connectivity issues (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- The Job Ahead: Surviving Australia’s COVID-19 recession (ABC News)
- Farmers push back on Coalition’s gas plan saying quality of land and water takes priority (The Guardian)
- Infectious bee disease, American foulbrood, found in Alice Springs hives (ABC News)
- WA grocery prices set to rise as ‘work and wander’ campaign comes up short (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Pacific Islander workers will help plug seasonal ag worker shortage (Stock & Land)
- Why closing our borders to foreign workers could see fruit and vegetable prices spike (The Bulletin)
- Seasonal worker funding package part of Wide Bay economic recovery plan (National Tribune)
- Be biosecurity aware as you ‘Wander out Yonder’ (Farm Weekly)
- ‘Explosion’ of new software fires up drone uptake in agriculture (Stock & Land)
- Seasonal worker funding package welcomed (Growcom media release)