PLAY PKN: Video News Bulletin 29 January

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Food & Drink Business

The Grains and Legumes Nutrition Council (GLNC) has released its 2025 Plant-Based Report, showing that despite sustained interest, overall plant‑based product availability has fallen by 33 per cent since the organisation’s last audit in 2022.

The Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of SA has announced the winners of its 2025 Royal Australian Spirit Awards (RASA), with the Central Coast’s Amber Lane Distillery receiving three of the seven major trophies.

Rum with roots

In the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, a former journalist has stepped into the world of distilling, handcrafting a range of spirits using local sugarcane molasses. Keira Joyce spoke with Soltera Rum founder, Keri  Algar, about starting up her own business with a tropical rum bar dream.