Posts tagged "strawberries"

A tray of strawberries has been auctioned off for $17,500 as Australian farmers start to bounce back from the strawberry needle tampering crisis.

The strawberry sabotage crisis is no doubt hurting individual growers in the short-term, but in the long-term, it may prove a huge win for the industry.

The strawberry needle sabotage was preceded by crushing financial pressures that left many farmers unable to sell this season’s oversupply of fruit.

A family-owned strawberry producer that has supplied fresh berries to Coles supermarkets for more than 40 years has collapsed into voluntary administration.

The pricing of strawberries at a Tesco supermarket in the United Kingdom has led to the supermarket being fined £300,000 ($A519,000) for mi…