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:
- Sydney floods add to soaring vegetable prices (Fresh Fruit Portal)
- How the latest NSW floods will impact vegetable supply and prices (3AW Radio)
- Bee, pig import bans on South Australian border (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Major crisis just five months away as AdBlue shortage threatens Australia’s trucking industry (News.com.au)
- CQ central to ag plan (CQ Today)
- Treasurer Jim Chalmers working to limit impact on fresh produce supplies as NSW floods destroy crops (Sky News Australia)
- Donovans win Syngenta Grower of the Year at Hort Connections 2022 (Farm Weekly)
- Live ex ban to impact everything from wheat, chemicals, vegetables and fuel (Goulburn Post)
- DPIRD opens $2.6 Horticulture Netting Infrastructure Program (Farm Weekly)
- Food supply chain issues: Countrywide chief Richard Hinson (The Australian) – subscription required
- Fed up with rising costs of fresh produce, some Australians are resorting to social media to source their vegetables (ABC News)
- Working holidaymaker visa applications rebounding (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Fuel thefts double on farms as prices remain high, landholders urged to lock up stores (ABC News)