Australian farmers are plowing crops into the ground.

 

Covid has meant the overseas workers aren’t getting in and the government’s trying to get young Aussies - any  Aussies - to step in, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Only 500 have taken up a new incentive to get picking.   

 

A register set up by growers found they've lost more than $38 million worth of fruit and veg already. and the fruit harvest hasn’t peaked yet - that’s in March.  

 

Today we look at the background of the crisis and what's being done to put Australian fruit and vegies on Australian tables.

 

In today's headlines:

• A new poll shows only one third of Australians support changing the date of Australia Day

   

• Five states to get hit by a heatwave over the next two days 

   

• NZ first Covid-19 case in months

 

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