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:
- Crunch time as veggies go missing (The Saturday Age) – subscription required
- Farm loses $1.5m following ‘frustratingly hard’ start to growing season (The Herald Sun) – subscription required
- What is varroa mite and how could it impact Australia’s bee industry and food production? (ABC News)
- Soaring costs will ‘finish off’ some fruit, veg growers this year, fellow producers say (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Public submissions open into review of WA’s biosecurity legislation (The West Australian) – subscription required
- Demand for lettuce seeds surges in latest twist to vegetable saga (The West Australian) – subscription required
- Connectivity underpins the growth and success of Australian AgriTech (The Farmer Magazine)
- Farmer reveals increasing cost to grow strawberries, compared to higher price consumers are paying (ABC Rural)
- Move over lettuce: Price of snow peas skyrocket (The Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Could Ukrainian refugees help solve Ag worker crisis? (Country Caller)
- Cost of all fruit and vegetables to skyrocket in weeks (Today)
- La Niña could return in the Spring, BOM says | The Oz (The Australian) – subscription required