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:
- Urgent action required to safeguard Victorian horticulture industry (The National Tribune)
- Farmers desperate for harvest season workers (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Migrant farm workers to be offered pathway to permanent residency (The Australian) – subscription required
- AUSVEG VIC calls for quarantine scheme extension to ensure harvest workforce (Stock and Land)
- Prices climb but nothing in it for farmers (Seymour Telegraph)
- Australians encouraged to take up jobs in regional areas (The Daily Telegraph)
- Shipping container farm teaching TAFE students more than just agriculture (ABC News)
- AU: Agriculture Visa approved by government (FreshPlaza)
- Fruit and vegetable prices remain stable despite labour shortages (The New Daily)
- Covid-19: Call to bring in rural workers quickly (The Australian) – subscription required
- From next month foreigners can enter Australia to work on farms, but will New South Wales cope? (ABC News)
- COVID-19 “red status” prompts Tasmanian ban on seasonal workers from Tonga (ABC News)
- Shock move that could end potato farmers’ row over powerline (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required