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:
- Hort Connections 2020 postponed (Chris Komorke, Produce Plus)
- Coronavirus border lockdown sees backpackers choosing to stay, but increasingly ‘desperate’ for work (Jon Daly, ABC WA Country Hour)
- Farmers call for calm amid unprecedented coronavirus supermarket panic buying (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Australian industry calls for visa relief (Liam O’Callaghan, Asia Fruit)
- COVID-19: Federal Government considers visa changes for farm workers to counter travel restrictions (Tom Stayner, SBS News)
- Let ag’s visa workers stay longer with health cover says union (Andrew Marshall, Farm Online)
- Green Walls resource aims to bridge gap between cities and nature (Australian Leisure)
- Coronavirus food shortage fears prompt shoppers to target seeds and country stores (ABC News)
- Don’t panic, Australia. The coronavirus doesn’t mean we’ll run out of food (David Littleproud, The Guardian)
- ‘We can feed Australia’: Producers confident Australians won’t go hungry (Gareth Parker, 6PR)
- ‘Essential gatherings’: Accredited farmers markets to remain open (Bryce Eishold, Stock and Land)
- Smart Farming Partnerships gives money to get farms more environmental (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Pavey’s closed door community consultations criticised (Olivia Calver, The Land)
- Coronavirus panic buying takes root at nurseries selling fruit and vegetable plants and seeds (Tony Briscoe, ABC Tasmanian Country Hour)