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:
- Recognition of Fair Farms proves industry is protecting workers (Retail World Magazine)
- Greengrocer doubles prices for customers that meddle with vegetables (news.com.au)
- European glut could flood Oz with cheap chips (Queensland Country Life)
- Murray-Darling Basin irrigators buying into outback Queensland (ABC Rural)
- Ballarat potato industry fears impact of cheap frozen fries dumped on the market (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- ‘Potato people are different’: A gourmet producer’s guide to the best heritage breeds (ABC Central West)
- Simplot’s North West processing plants crucial to meeting COVID-19 demand (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- WA’s drought ‘the driest the land has been in 40 years’ (ABC WA Country Hour)
- Bureau of Meteorology announces wet winter outlook for 2020 (ABC Weather)
- Global flower industry suffers $1.5b loss, but Australian industry may bloom as a result (ABC Rural)
- Spitting chips over European threat to Tasmanian jobs (The Advocate)
- Calls for action to stop low-priced frozen fry imports (Fresh Plaza)
- Dobmac Supplies new Tong MonstaFill box to Tassie processor (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Hort Innovation shakes off lockdown-lows with the Good Mood Food campaign via special group (Campaign Brief)