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:
- Fruit and vegetable prices spike fears, furious residents as flood crisis deepens (The Australian) – subscription required
- Fruit and Vegetable Consortium report calls for healthy behaviour change (Queensland Country Life)
- Coalition vow to invest $1billion per year to fix crumbling roads in regional Victoria (Stock & Land)
- Murray-Darling Basin plan: states likely to get extra time to deliver water (The Guardian)
- NSW farmers wait as flood predictions loom (Queensland Country Life)
- Victoria introduces country’s toughest farm trespass penalties (Stock & Land)
- Paradise Dam wall raise funds not allocated in federal budget as farmers brace for summer rain (ABC Online)
- Bureau forecaster predicts an early and active cyclone season in FNQ after two years of weather respite (Daily Telegraph)
- Fruit and Vegetable Consortium report calls for healthy behaviour change (Cootamundra Herald)
- Australia’s herd size in spotlight as countries move to reduce methane emissions (ABC Online)
- Storm season is almost upon us, writes Growcom CEO Rachel Chambers (Queensland Country Life)