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:
- John Said elected AFPA chair (Fruitnet)
- Omicron no barrier to record $78 billion farm gate output (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Australia’s vegetable consumption is declining (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- As ‘fortress Australia’ opens after two years of COVID-19 border closures, will backpackers and tourists come back? (ABC News)
- Visa workers missing as costs rise for battling growers (Sunraysia Daily) – subscription required
- International Fresh Produce Association launched with long list of directors announced (North Queensland Register)
- Campaign should encourage Australians to eat more veggies (FreshPlaza)
- New horticulture program for the Bass Coast (South Gippsland Sentinel-Times)
- Fee waiver expected to encourage backpackers to return to Tassie (The Mercury)
- New technology for trapping hort pests (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- A lack of RATs is contributing to the dire shortage of agriculture workers across NSW (The Area News)
- Wellcamp quarantine hub: Residents speculate over use for seasonal workers on Darling Downs (The Chronicle)
- Farm groups set to distribute 56,000 RATs (Queensland Country Life)