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:
- Mixed veg (OutBack Magazine)
- $6K incentive to move for work just not enough (Cairns Post)
- Morrison Government’s AgMove vital boost for Queensland’s agriculture workforce (The National Tribune)
- How Covid-19 switched off our instant backpacker workforce (The Australian) – subscription required
- Covid forces new policies to address critical shortage of migrant workers (The Australian)
- Over 200 aged care, hospitality and agricultural workers touch down in NT (The Mercury)
- National Farmers Federation calls for truth in labelling at fake meat Senate Inquiry (The National Tribune)
- Bayer commits to increasing global fruit and vegetable consumption (North Queensland Register)
- Fruit, vegetables and exercise can make you happier (Knowridge)
- Farm work: Victoria’s $2500 sign-on bonus gets Aussies picking fruit and vegies (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Agerris Digital Farmhand robots tackling horticulture industry’s challenges (Farm Weekly)
- Farmers give PALM tick of approval (Bundaberg Today)
Australia’s farmers set for record $70bn year – but labour shortages and Covid rules threaten harvest (The Guardian)