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:
- Strengthening community connections for seasonal workers (The National Tribune)
- Workers from Vanuatu back on Bundaberg farms, but others risk deportation for absconding (ABC News)
- Shepparton fruit picker earning $1,000 per week says piece rate can double income (ABC News)
- Horticulture visits put safety in spotlight (The National Tribune)
- Tables turning for hard hit exporters (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- ACCC calls for major overhaul of ‘outdated’ Murray-Darling Basin water markets (ABC News)
- Fernihurst farmers say their property has perfect growing conditions for Mexican chillies (ABC News)
- NFF horticulture council yet to agree on a position on undocumented worker amnesty (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Mandarin prices likely to rise as Australia’s largest growing region struck by labour shortage (ABC News)
- Floods a blow to some NSW farmers, with shortages and higher prices to consumers expected in short-term (ABC News)
- Grantham backpacker lodge nominated as a local solution to quarantine overseas workers to reduce labour hire shortages (The Courier-Mail)