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:
- Workplace umpire considers bid to overhaul horticulture wage (ABC News)
- Roundup and glyphosate given tick of approval for use in World Heritage area (ABC News)
- Freight pressures to hit consumers at Christmas peak (The Australian Financial Review)
- QR-codes not mandatory for NSW farms but tracing encouraged to protect ag worker movements (ABC News)
- Extra Support For Farmers To Build Harvest Workforce (Premier of Victoria)
- Samoa considers restricting seasonal work to singles, over marital affairs concern (ABC News)
- Velisha Farms: School program teaching kids the vast array of jobs in ag (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Chinese official declares Beijing has targeted Australian goods as economic punishment (ABC News)
- Covid-19: Freight transport slump hits exporters (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- New Zealand industry ire grows as closed borders worsen labour shortages (Yahoo!7)
- Quad-bike safety delay: Sukkar sidetracks October deadline on fitting ATV roll bars (Weekly Times Now)
- Faster potato breeding thanks to identification key gene for self-compatibility (Mirage News)
- Agriculture visa: Timeline in doubt as citrus growers battle to secure workers (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
Farmers react to ‘uneducated’ bid to ban barbed wire fencing (3AW – Australia)