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:
- Calling for nominations to find Australia’s most outstanding Young Growers (Medianet)
- Growcom Gap Year to help fill horticultural labour shortage (The Courier-Mail)
- AUSVEG Vic ready for state awards in May (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Sydney News: NSW Government to subsidise fruit picker quarantine costs (ABC News)
- Half-price hotel quarantine for agricultural workers as crop losses tip $52m in five months (ABC News)
- Growers warn Australia needs to rethink how it sources harvest labour (MSN Australia)
- ‘Backpackers not coming back soon’: Growers face harvest workforce challenges (Sky News Australia)
- First Pacific workers help farmers pick a way through labour shortage (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Dr Robyn Cleland appointed as Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer (The National Tribune)