The weeks’ 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:
- What cover crop is best for vegie production? (The Land) – subscription required
- Horticulture Coalition needs addressed (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Have you felt the 9% price hike on vegetables this year? (ABC News)
- New Zealand claim to world’s largest potato is actually a tuber (ABC News)
- NSW beekeepers warn of flow-on effects to horticulture industry after floods destroy 5,000 hives (ABC News)
- NSW invests $125 million in farming to grow greenhouse cuts (Brisbane Times)
- Ukraine crisis: The impact on global supply chains (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Brisbane floods damage University of Queensland glasshouses, result in ‘huge loss of knowledge’ (ABC News)
- Women to cop brunt of increase in cost of living pressures (ABC News)
- Kangaroo Island seed potato shed back in action (The Lead South Australia)
- Inland Rail could drop ag transport costs by up to $100/ton (Parkes Champion-Post)
- Blanket fuel price levy hits fruit, vegetable retailers (The Courier-Mail)
- Flood funds flow to those in need (North Queensland Register)
- Fresh and frozen food prices will stay high for months, supermarket boss says (ABC News)
- Major tax change will put Aussie farmers on forefront of carbon emissions reductions (Herald Sun) – subscription required