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:
- Harvest trail targets key hort areas (Stock Journal)
- What about farm workers? Victoria’s tennis tournament smashed by farmers, minister (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Lasers stop ducks from eating crop, saving farmer $500 a night (Stock & Land)
- Chips are on the table in rush to create hydrogen fuel and fertiliser from humble potatoes (ABC News)
- Harvest Trail Services Collaboration Trial To Help Australian Farms (Mirage News)
- Seasonal workers: Pitch to bring Vanuatu workers to Victoria falls on deaf ears (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Hatching and hungry: locusts descend on green pastures (ABC News)
- Indian farmers fight reform laws, but changes could boost trade with Australia (ABC News)
- Reskilling and Labour Migration Vital to Pacific’s Economic Recovery (Mirage News)
- Left Field call for expressions of interest from parents and guardians to pick vegetables (Jimboomba Times)
- Harping on about over regulation (Queensland Country Life)