Farm crisis: Crops worth $35m rot as jobs go begging

Farmers have already ploughed in or left $35m worth of crops to rot in fields because they cannot find the workers to harvest them.Parts of one of Queensland’s traditional bedrock industries are on their knees, QFF chief executive officer Georgina Davis said, with farmers working around the clock and risking breakdown because they cannot find workers to fill jobs as harvest and planting looms for many sectors next month.She said there were 26,000 unfilled jobs nationally and between 6000 and 7000…



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