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:
- Veg field days embrace digital front and social media (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Consortium launched amid coronavirus to make Aussies eat their fruit and vegetables (ABC Landline)
- Organic Offerings: Organic produce in demand (ABC Landline)
- Demand for online organic vegetables surge during lockdown (4BC)
- Potato growers spitting chips over European dumping threat (Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Federal Government axes biosecurity levy designed to protect Australian farmers from pests and disease (ABC Rural)
- Farmer frustration: govt backs away from biosecurity import levy (Queensland Country Life)
- Government’s COVID Commission manufacturing plan calls for huge public gas subsidies (ABC News)
- $1 million government funding for Tassie hort exports (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Potato growers call for Federal Government action ahead of glut (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Campaign launches to help fill SA ag vacancies (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- China, EU, US are subsidy leaders, but Aussie ag gets little support says OECD (Farm Online)
- China’s tariffs on Australian barley could see export market lose hundreds of millions of dollars (ABC Rural)
- Crookwell potato growers reap the reward of recent rains with bumper potato harvest (ABC Central West)
- AFL to run alongside leading seafood show (Produce Plus)
- Commission of Inquiry’s Paradise Dam report released by Qld government (Good Fruit and Vegetables)