Fancy $100,000? Well, go to Queensland and pick strawberries

Vernon Graham
April 8 2021 - 5:00pm
NICE OFFICE VIEW: Strawberry growers have taken the extraordinary step of offering cash prizes to attract harvest labour to the sunshine state this winter.
NICE OFFICE VIEW: Strawberry growers have taken the extraordinary step of offering cash prizes to attract harvest labour to the sunshine state this winter.

Cash prizes of up to $100,000 are being offered in a novel move to ensure Queensland strawberry growers have enough workers to pick this year's winter crop.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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