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:
- Taking a stand for horticulture | OPINION (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- VegetablesWA chief John Shannon leaves, prompting national search for replacement (The West Australian)
- Invasive insect fall armyworm on the march, but scientists fight back with an oozing virus and an egg-attacking wasp (ABC News)
- WA growers on high alert for American serpentine leafminer pest detected in the Ord (ABC News)
- Big challenges ahead as we overcome Covid-19 pandemic (The Australian) – subscription required
- What can be Expected Next Fruit Harvest Season? (Tasmanian Times)
- Fair Work Commission Concludes AWU Farm Workers Case (The National Tribune)
- Aussie horticulture spotlights responsible farming (The National Tribune)
- Cobram fruit grower uses Taiwanese vacuum dry technology to turn apple wastage into chips (ABC News)
- Farm robots could mean utopia of dystopia for the future of farming (ABC News)