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:
- Farmers’ plea to plug worker gaps with foreign labour (The Australian) – subscription required
- New technology helps fight varroa as Victorian beekeeper monitors bees’ health from far (ABC Online)
- The future of farming (The Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Desperate farmers say Jobs and Skills Summit must address labour issues rather than being a ‘talkfest’ (ABC Online)
- Alternative crops and technology help fruit farmers in northern Australia adapt to worker shortage (ABC Online)
- Supermarket price hikes on the way following wild weather (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Fed govt announces biodiversity credits scheme diversity credits (ABC Online)
- Plan to unlock unused land in Australia’s salad bowl using ‘wasted’ recycled water (ABC Online)
- The 22 most influential people in Australian agriculture in 2022 (The Courier-Mail)
- Rural accommodation task force and better visas on NFF wish list ahead of jobs summit (The Australian) – subscription required
- State wide regional businesses set to benefit from latest Rural Economic Development Grants (Queensland Country Life)
- Jordan finds gem of a job (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- ‘Worse than last year’: worker shortages bite again in the agriculture sector (The Age)
- ‘Nobody wants to work’: Farmers leave oranges, limes and lemons to rot (Brisbane Times)
- Vertical farming: Sprout Stack, Eden Towers, Stacked Farm grab slice of $6b global sector (The Weekly Times) – subscription required