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 (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- #KnowYourAUSVEG campaign to highlight growers’ work (The Land)
- ‘Catastrophic’ warning over supermarket stock shortages (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Woolworths supply chain: Veg growers lose out as orders cut (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- More than 90 per cent of Ballarat’s potato crops damaged by extreme weather (ABC News)
- Big year for ag reforms, but an average season the number one wish: Agriculture Minister David Littleproud (Farm Online)
- NFF telling Aussie ag story to world stage to smooth trade deals (Stock Journal)
- Scott Morrison push to put food back in supermarkets (The Australian) – subscription required
- Australian food producers hit by Covid staff shortages welcome isolation rule changes (The Guardian)
- Fears of a Victorian potato shortage after ‘once in 100-year disaster’ (3AW)