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:
- How the cost of diesel is impacting on farmers (The Australian) – subscription required
- New Zealand food inflation highest for 13 years as vegetables and dairy drive prices (MSN Australia)
- Australian La Niña dampens fire risk but threatens summer crops (The Guardian)
- Horticulture supply chain support funding released (Farms & Farm Machinery)
- National Farmers Federation welcomes ambitious target for bush (The National Tribune)
- Meat industry council head says crunch time is looming over worker shortages (Stock & Land)
- iMapPESTS monitoring priority insect pests in Ayr (HortiDaily)
- Queensland growers banking on Pick Paradise campaign to lure ag workers to tropical north (ABC Online)
- Farmer confidence dips to its lowest point in three years (ABC Online)
- Australia’s agricultural land prices boom, but investors warned it may not last (The Guardian)
- Food Safety Never Been More Critical (Gannawarra Times)
- $50m govt plan to build up AdBlue supplies (InnovationAus.com)