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:
- People urged to grow career in hort (Stock Journal)
- Gippsland vegetable growers to benefit from VegNET program boost (Pakenham Gazette)
- Potato shortage looms after ‘worst’ planting season in 40 years (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- ‘It’s a problem we need to address’ (Queensland Country Life)
- Tasmanian fruit growers push back on minimum rate for pickers (ABC News)
- How and when to open borders to foreign workers is politically fraught (The Daily Telegraph)
- Horticulture profit margins: Factors affecting fruit growers’ bottom lines (The Courier-Mail)
- Floods to cost farmers millions, but Forbes is spared the worst of it (ABC News)
- Second round of consultation on food safety management of berries, leafy vegetables and melons (Food Standards Australia New Zealand)
- Shipping profits soar as export crisis continues (Stock and Land)
- ‘We need to be alarmed’: food banks in overdrive as politicians allow Australians to go hungry (The Guardian)
- Connecting our regional strengths has national benefits | The Australian (The Australian) – subscription required
- Shoppers to pay for worker shortage (The National Tribune)
- Instrument to ‘fingerprint’ high-risk border pests (The National Tribune)