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:
- ‘Cherries for Christmas’: Hailstorm-hit growers confident of rebound (InDaily)
- Damage assessments and clean up underway as SA growers count cost of hailstorm (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farm workers pay set to change and what it will mean for food prices (ABC News)
- Farms are ditching their old stereotypes and are being recognised as cutting-edge businesses (The Courier-Mail)
- Farmers caught in cross-hairs of stevedores, shippers, wharfies cartel (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Australian farmers await overseas workforce as locals are too ‘spoilt for choice’ (The Guardian)
- Taxpayers slugged with multimillion-dollar tax refund after loophole in backpacker tax (The Courier-Mail)
- National Farmers on the net-zero future (ABC News)
- Harvest sign-on bonus extended (Stock and Land)
- Plan hopes to double Bowen-Gumlu horticulture region’s vegetable production to $900 million (ABC News)