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:
- AUSVEG welcomes investment in key areas that will benefit growers (FreshPlaza)
- Qld vegetable producer Mulgowie Farms wins Woolworths sustainability award (Farm Online)
- What’s ahead for agriculture in 2022 (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Parents’ positive facial expressions while eating vegetables encourage children to consume more vegetables (The Medical News)
- Look out for exotic pests in your garden (Albany Advertiser)
- Skyrocketing fertiliser prices another hurdle for struggling farmers (Ararat Advertiser)
- When the levee breaks: burrows from mouse plague cause trouble for flood-hit NSW farmers (The Guardian)
- Vital extension work to continue for Australias vegetable growers (The Land)
- National fuel supply at risk due to AdBlue shortage, Australian defence expert warns (The Guardian)
- Farmers warn of threat to UK food security due to seasonal worker visa cap (The Guardian)
- Carrots, broccoli and potatoes on the menu this holiday season (News Centre)
- National Farmers Federation applauds Government’s partnership with Incitec Pivot to sure up AdBlue uncertainty (The National Tribune)
- Fake meat inquiry may ask vegan food producers to drop labels like ‘beef’ from packaging (ABC News)