This year thousands of mangoes, strawberries, mandarins and mushrooms will never make it to market. Why? Because farmers can’t find the workers they need to harvest them.

Grain growers, dairy farmers and pork producers are also constrained by an ongoing worker crisis.

The inability to find enough workers to pick and pack produce; milk cows; and drive harvesters, costs Australian agriculture millions of dollars in lost productivity every year. The flow on effect of this is a loss of prosperity for our regional communities and our national economy.

The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) wants to see Australians filling Aussie farm jobs. However, lots of farm work is labour intensive, not available all year around and therefore not suited to some Australian job seekers. Read more of this Australian Farmers article.