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Asparagus growers leave crops to rot as prices drop below production cost
Ed Fagan’s family first started growing asparagus near Cowra, in the New South Wales central west, in the 1950s.
Seven decades later, rising costs of labour combined with pricing pressures from the major supermarkets have led Mr Fagan to leave his crop to rot and turn his attention to other…
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