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:
- Potato famers’ row over powerline plan ramps up (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Wageningen scientists discover how potato blight pathogen penetrates plant (Mirage News)
- Jenny expertise gets top nod (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Moffatt Fresh Produce at Tarome takes carrot farming to next level (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Concern and confusion as water portfolio dumped from government’s inner-circle (Jimboomba Times)
- New flights to Japan and the US (FreshPlaza)
- NSW COVID lockdown sees return to restrictions on farm businesses, saleyards, trucking and events (ABC News)
- ‘Timely action’ needed on new agriculture visa, say vegetable growers (The West Australian)
- EGVID rises above pandemic; scores award (Queensland Country Life)
- Western Victoria Transmission Network Project: Growers fear for future of potato industry after transmission line announcement (The Courier)
- Fears of backpacker mass exodus from farms to the pub (Bundaberg Today)
- Tech sought to fix farm issues (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Refined data will help hort grow (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Victorian farmers open a “digital gate” to their properties (Stock and Land)