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:
- Agribusiness owners concerned about liability for COVID-19 outbreaks if employees refuse vaccination (ABC News)
- Detection prompts fall armyworm warning (Farm Weekly)
- She won’t be apples: labour shortage hits harvest, prompts plea for more foreign labour (The Australian) – subscription required
- Worker shortage gripping NQ fruit and vegetable growers (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Recycler Suez says herbicides in contaminated compost came from Melbourne council waste (ABC News)
- International freight flights from Toowoomba to Singapore extended (ABC News)
- ‘Perfectly good’ produce supermarkets reject hits sweet spot with conscientious consumers (ABC News)
- Fresh hope for regional growth (The Australian) – subscription required
- Victorian government rules out gauge standardisation under Murray Basin Rail Project (ABC News)
- Wet summer a challenge, but farmers won’t begrudge a drop of rain after years of drought (ABC News)
- Backpackers petition the government to relax six month visa farm work (MSN – Australia)
- Facebook pages wiped: VFF, Aussie Farms, Gippsland Jersey (Weekly Times Now)
- Australian farmers call for renewable energy zones as Nationals push coal and nuclear (The Guardian)