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:
- Backyard veggie patches boom even as the coronavirus food panic subsides (ABC Newcastle)
- Trade agreement ensures Australian growers can benefit from Indonesia’s economic growth (HortiDaily)
- China’s tariff threats on Australian barley force farmers to pause mid-planting (ABC WA Country Hour)
- Fruit and vegetable producers offer direct sales to combat COVID-19 pressure (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Scott Morrison gives clearest signal yet on restaurants and cafes reopening (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Chinese state-owned company buys up water in the Murray-Darling (ABC 7:30)
- Central West farmers rejoice in huge rainfall totals after years of drought (ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Launceston Horticultural Society’s Warren Prewer grows one of Tasmania’s longest carrots (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Italy’s proposed illegal worker amnesty gives Australian farmers hope (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Coronavirus testing clinic goes mobile in agricultural community of Robinvale to target itinerant workers (ABC Mildura Swan Hill)
- High rainfall, low dollar create farming’s best conditions in decades (The Weekly Times) – subscription required