Australian farmers await overseas workforce as locals are too ‘spoilt for choice’

Australian farmers await overseas workforce as locals are too ‘spoilt for choice’

Written by Tim McGlone from the Guardian

Long-awaited agricultural visa could provide much needed labour, but some experts fear potential for worker exploitation


A microcosm of Australians’ reluctance to work on farms can be seen in Victoria’s Yarra valley.

CEO of a group of strawberry farms, Miffy Gilbert, struggled to source labour for the current harvest, while her teenage son works as a shelf-stacker at a supermarket.

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melted welly

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Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
ah but covid was brexit's fault as is climate change and norwich city being bottom of prem league
If Norwich City go vegan though, that should put them mid table then plant some trees to get to the top. Suppose next step is to be offended at not getting into Europe, so that ensure further progression 👍
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
My daughter wants to go but it looks like she’s too white.
Plus she really doesn’t want to do anything too difficult. She’s management material she tells me.
 

Chae1

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Location
Aberdeenshire
My daughter wants to go but it looks like she’s too white.
Plus she really doesn’t want to do anything too difficult. She’s management material she tells me.
That's the problem. Most people think there management material now and aren't willing to do actual work.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 78 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.5%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 5 2.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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