Australians are lucky to enjoy a never-ending summer of fruit and vegetable supply because there is always a ripening season somewhere in this huge country.
But the strain on farmers from a rolling sequence of natural disasters is increasingly evident, with supermarkets apologising for a lack of some fresh and frozen products.
"We've lost critical planting windows through every major growing area in Australia in the last few months, and you can't make that up," Tasmanian Farmers Vegetable Council chairperson Nathan Richardson said.
