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:
- Australian fruit and vegetable prices to rise by Christmas as farmers struggle in lockdown (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Scientists unveil plans to grow food production by $20 billion (Stock and Land)
- Victorian government signs off on worker deal (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- What happens when an exotic pest arrives in Australia? (Get Regional)
- More workers on their way to support seasonal harvest (Victorian Farmer)
- Fruit and vegetable prices face COVID-19 impact (Brisbane Times)
- Goulburn Valley’s new food innovation hub (Stock and Land)
- ‘We’ve got 80-year-olds driving trucks’: Farmers scramble to find harvest workers as border closures bite (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Covid restrictions lock out seasonal farm workers (The Australian) – subscription required
- Australia overhauls Pacific work schemes (Jimboomba Times)
- Agriculture minister David Littleproud flags trade diversification as path to agriculture boom (The Canberra Times)
- Ag gross value set to break $70 billion mark for first time (Farm Online)