03/04/2026
AUSVEG urges all Australians to keep the nation’s vegetable growers front-of-mind this Easter, as an industry which provides 98 percent of Australia’s fresh vegetables continues to face ongoing uncertainty, and unprecedented cost pressures.
As Australians sit down to Easter meals with friends, families and loved ones, we encourage every Aussie to consider where the food on their plates has come from, and spare a thought for the nation’s vegetable growers, working tirelessly through extreme uncertainty, surging production costs, and critical input shortages to make meals like these possible.
It remains critical for Australia’s food security that all Australian vegetable growers receive assurances from their customers that they will receive viable farmgate prices for their produce, and assurances from the Government that they will be prioritised for critical farm inputs like fuel, fertiliser and freight.
Without these assurances, as well as action on the longer-term, system-wide issues that have increasingly threatened vegetable grower viability, the supply and availability of critical, safe, fresh Australian vegetables is at risk.
Read more: https://ausveg.com.au/article/vegetable-growers-are-committed-to-feeding-australians-they-just-need-a-fair-price/
