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:
- Cost of meat and vege predicted to keep soaring (Channel 9 News)
- Banning Solomon Islands workers ‘a step too far’ (The Australian) – subscription required
- Tip of the iceberg: why lettuce could get even more pricey (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Labour pains from worker shortage set to persist (Queensland Country Life)
- NSW yet to pay out 93 per cent of promised flood support money (News.com.au)
- Potato farmers ‘doing it for nothing’ warn of mass exodus amid stagnant prices (ABC Online)
- Input costs squeeze growers (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Blueberry rust in Western Australia prompts call for plant checks (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Victorian horticulture farmers encouraged to join Agriculture Victoria’s Horticulture Farm Monitor Pilot (Stock and Land)
- Farmers fear resurgent mouse plague (Jimboomba Times)