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:
- Potatoes: The only constant in our lives is about to increase in price | The Oz (The Australian) – subscription required
- Victorian farmers warn potato prices will rise (Channel 9 News)
- Dill or no dill? Herb prices rocket in Australia, but consumers told to bide their thyme (The Guardian)
- VFF says water recovery can’t proceed (Riverine Herald) – subscription required
- Australia announces new supply chain service for exporters from August 1 (Dynamic Business)
- Potatoes are the Latest to Succumb to a Price Hike (Indian Sun)
- WorkSafe inspectors heading off to farms (psnews.com.au)
- “This is about being proactive, not reactive”: WA beekeepers share devastating realities of varroa mite (The West Australian) – subscription required
- Peter Leach wins the Bayer Researcher of the Year Award for 2022 (Queensland Country Life)
- How do you prevent the next big lettuce shortage? Growing crops undercover could be the answer (ABC Online)
- Urgent visa fix to tackle skills crisis (Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Why Stephen Curry joined protest against AusNet’s west Victorian transmission line (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Albanese backs ‘strongest ever’ foot and mouth measures, warns against border closure (Brisbane Times)
- Hort Connections 2022 – wrap-up (Rural Business)
- All mail from China, Indonesia to be checked for foot and mouth disease (Brisbane Times)
- Junk food brands targeting teens through viral TikTok ‘challenges’, researchers say (ABC Online)