Conditions ripe for quality local fruit

Elizabeth Anderson
Updated October 10 2018 - 3:09pm, first published 6:40am
BERRY GOOD: Christie and Steph Rozaklis, Green Valley Strawberries, Nairne, are looking forward to picking beginning within weeks with the fruit to be sold in local supermarkets and through their farmgate store.
BERRY GOOD: Christie and Steph Rozaklis, Green Valley Strawberries, Nairne, are looking forward to picking beginning within weeks with the fruit to be sold in local supermarkets and through their farmgate store.

THE South Australian Produce Market and the state government have responded to a nationwide concern about tampered fruit with plans for a metal detector after sowing needles were deliberately inserted in interstate-sourced strawberries.

Elizabeth Anderson

Editor of Stock Journal.

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