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:
- Export fees and charges set to double for horticulture, dairy and live animals (Courier Mail)
- Victorian horticulture farm inspiring next generation of growers (Education Matters Magazine)
- Boosting growers’ resilience (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Couple bucks backpacker hostel closure trend amid seasonal worker shortage worries (ABC News)
- ‘Abysmal’ biosecurity failures put $100 billion of assets at risk, auditor finds (ABC Rural)
- How to apply for 1300+ picking jobs in the Lockyer Valley, Gatton during unemployment crisis (The Chronicle)
- Farmer forced to destroy $2.7 million worth of banana crop as worker shortage crisis grips the industry (The West Australian)
- Lockyer Valley Growers Expo gala dinner celebrates industry | PHOTOS (The Land)
- Delegates gathering in Brisbane as Hort Connections 2021 gets underway (Fresh Plaza)