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 working with potato growers to monitor Ballarat storm aftermath (Potato News Today)
- AUSVEG CEO raises key issues affecting vegetable and potato growers (FreshPlaza)
- RAT supply: Agribusinesses to run out of tests as government seizes orders (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Supply chain weaknesses could be predicted in the future: NFF (Farm Online)
- ‘Perfect storm’: Experts predict surprise twist in Australia’s supply chain crisis (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Crunch time for critical work (Queensland Country Life)
- Fears of potato shortage after farmers’ crops destroyed (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Trade minister urged to extend air freight subsidies (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- ‘It’s obscene’: Farmers dump produce as supply chain crisis bites (The Age)
- Up to 40 per cent of food supply chain workers in isolation, says peak farming body (ABC News)
- Creswick storm causes millions of dollars in crop damage (The Courier-Mail)
- True impact of damage to Ballarat’s potato crops starts to show (3BA)