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:
- National Lost Crop Register surpasses $45 million in losses at farmgate value due to worker shortage (ABC Rural)
- Rural jobs to be replaced by machines, experts warn (2GB)
- Fruit juice could get lower health rating than diet coke (The Daily Telegraph)
- Statement by National Farmers Federation CEO Tony Mahar on agriculture and emissions (Mirage News)
- NSW Agriculture Minister hints at long-awaited seasonal worker relief announcement (MSN Australia)
- ‘Chain gang’: Andrews government plan for prisoners to pick fruit shot down by farmers (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Seasonal workers arrive in Tasmania from the Pacific — but even numbering 650 there’s still not enough to go around (ABC News)
- Fruit fly messaging made clear (The Stock Journal)
- The price of ginger has skyrocketed, but can we expect a return to normal? (ABC News)
- Seasonal workers to quarantine ‘on farm’ under new plan (Tweed Daily News)