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:
- Potato consumption soars as Australians embrace the humble spud (ABC News)
- Registrations open for Hort Connections 2022, early-bird registrations on offer (The National Tribune)
- Covid quarantine facility plan for Walkamin as Atherton Tablelands face farm worker shortage (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Next generation of growers looks bright (The Land)
- Victoria appoints first biosecurity reference group (Sheep Central)
- Feeding the bush from the backyard with vertical farming (ABC News)
- Aussie potatoes mashing previous records (The National Tribune)
- More opportunities for farm fun as school returns (The National Tribune)
- More ag export freight hikes loom, warns peak shippers’ body (The Land)
- Ag Move lures 7000 locals seasonal ag workforce via $20m in govt incentives (The Land)
- Agriculture visa for foreign workers set to be capped at 1,000, DFAT says (ABC News)
- Water fight over 3500-hectare NT fruit and vegetable project (Stock Journal)
- Young farmers to watch in 2022: Emma Ayliffe, Celia Scott (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- A new agriculture visa promised to fill worker shortages. It’s yet to bear any fruit (SBS)
- ‘Super pest’ Colorado potato beetle has genetic resources to sidestep our attacks (Mirage News)
- Eden Towers to build vertical vegetable production towers in Perth (North Queensland Register)