Harvest headaches loom as worker shortage deepens

Gregor Heard
July 16 2021 - 6:30am
Scott Hoffmann and Andrew Lamont, Hoffmann Contracting, say it is getting harder to attract workers to follow the harvest down from Queensland to Victoria.
Scott Hoffmann and Andrew Lamont, Hoffmann Contracting, say it is getting harder to attract workers to follow the harvest down from Queensland to Victoria.

GRAIN producers set to cash in on a favourable season could have a spanner thrown in the works due to a crippling lack of harvest contract labour.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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