Needles in strawberries, call to support farmers following sabotage

Tanya Marschke
Updated September 18 2018 - 5:32pm, first published 4:30pm
DON'T BE DETERRED: Huntley Berry Farm marketing manager Gianni Belmonte said frost and drought are the biggest issues facing his strawberry crop, which will ripen in late October. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
DON'T BE DETERRED: Huntley Berry Farm marketing manager Gianni Belmonte said frost and drought are the biggest issues facing his strawberry crop, which will ripen in late October. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

Strawberries can still be purchased in Orange despite shopping centres across Australia pulling punnets off shelves last week after needles were found in the fruit.

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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