The week’s top 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 ploughing fresh veggies back into soil as restaurant ban bites (Zach Hope, Sydney Morning Herald)
- Lockyer Valley Organics is receiving 400 per cent increase in demand for organic produce (Helen Walker, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Farmers forced to destroy fruit, vegetable crops due to coronavirus disruptions (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Want coronavirus restrictions eased? Rural Australians say start with us (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- Maths, reading and better nutrition: All the reasons to cook with your kids (The new Daily)
- Boomaroo Nurseries adapting to changing business environment (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Farmers lap up cheap diesel (Nick Grimm, ABC The World Today)
- Waiting on a parcel from Australia Post? This is why it is taking so long? (Kirsten Robb, ABC 7.30)
- AUSVEG calls Country of Origin Labelling for fast food (Food Processing)
- SPS to showcase new veg lines at EGVID (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Fall armyworm detected as far south as Bundaberg (Melody Labinsky, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Life in lockdown: Ready meal sales double as Aussies are ‘sick of cooking’ (Rebekah Scanlan, news.com.au)
- Coronavirus state lockdowns create headaches for residents on NSW-Queensland border (ABC News)
- Backpackers face abuse and job losses in regional South Australia as communities fear coronavirus spread (ABC SA Country Hour).
- White spot disease discovered again in South East Queensland (ABC Radio Brisbane)
- Locust plague begins to strike farms in western New South Wales (ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Primex and New Zealand Fieldays to go virtual while COVID-19 restrictions remain (Kim Honan, ABC Rural)