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:
- New Australia-NZ Export Plan to bear fruit (Mirage News)
- Need to grasp opportunity to change unachievable Basin plan (Stock & Land)
- Bid to stop 2-star health rating for juice (Retail World Magazine)
- Aussie farmers urging government to avoid ‘further diplomatic debacles’ with China (2GB)
- Pacific Islanders could quarantine in Darwin, before moving to Victoria (The Wimmera Mail Times)
- Defending against a new pest, fall armyworm (The Rural Leader)
- TOP CROP: Lockyer’s next gen to take farming into the future (Cairns Post)
- Robots doing a smashing job in avocado packing shed (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Juice rating on agenda at minister’s health star meeting (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Summer fruit and veg prices to rise as more than half the crop left in the field (ABC)
- More people conscious about food source since COVID-19 (Farm Machinery Sales)
- High-tech sandbox helps farmers visualise water flow (Mirage News)