#farmlabour — Public Fediverse posts

Mellow day on the farm. No CSA delivery this week so we had time for maintenance, including switching row cover.

On the drive home we had an interesting conversation about clean/dirty, attractive/disgusting, kind/cruel and the way these ideological concepts play out, for example in the discrimination against so-called buraku people in Japan. The film Okuribito is a depiction of this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures_(2008_film)
#farmclub #farmlabour #kegare #部落解放同盟

#Kenya to send 1,500 #agricultureworkers to Israel amid #farmlabour shortage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KMKaxfPU6M

The arrangement is problematic and exploitative.

#PermanentCeasefireNOW
#CessezLeFeu
#CessateIlFuoco
#EndTheOccupationNOW🇵🇸

Kenya, don't do it!!!!

Not all overseas harvest workers went home during the pandemic International border closures left many in the agriculture sector short-staffed this year, but there are a few overseas workers who opted to stay in Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-22/taking-harvest-lessons-home-to-indonesia/12886712 #TravelandTourism #CropHarvesting #FarmLabour #Lockdown #Grain

Vet Ross Ainsworth spends six months on live export ships or in quarantine due to COVID rules With 40 years' experience in live cattle exports, this veterinarian came out of retirement to help fill a worker shortage on stock-laden boats — and has barely set foot on land since March. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-20/vet-ross-ainsworth-fills-live-cattle-export--worker-shortage/12903410 #CattleFeedlots #BeefCattle #FarmLabour

While fruit pickers of all ages are in high demand these students are already old hands Young Australians who have picked fruit for years recommend other teens get on the harvest trail desperate for workers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-11-20/fruit-picking-school-students-already-old-hands/12904534 #CommunityandSociety #AgriculturalCrops #FarmLabour #RuralYouth #Fruits #Fruit #Rural #Youth #Work

'I make a lot more money here than Tonga': Grateful workers saving Queensland's harvest The first international farmworkers to join the Australian fruit harvest — without completing hotel quarantine — are saving central Queensland farmers millions of dollars. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-11-20/tongan-seasonal-workers-emerald-complete-on-farm-quarantine/12897008 #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #Horticulture #FarmLabour #Harvesting #FruitCrops #Rural #Fruit

Vanuatu investigates 'substantial' pay and welfare issues of seasonal workers in Australia Problems surrounding wages and conditions for seasonal workers in the horticulture industry are causing Pacific Islander workers to abscond, according to Vanuatu's High Commissioner. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-07/vanuatu-high-commissioner-visits-queensland-seasonal-worker-pay/12856652 #FarmLabour

'We could make a billion Weet-Bix': 2020 is set to be the biggest food harvest in years Almost 15 million tonnes will be harvested in NSW in the coming weeks, making up a strong portion of Australia's 47-million-tonne winter harvest output, so there will be plenty of bread, beer and pasta to go around. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-03/2020-will-be-a-bountiful-harvest-after-drought/12785094 #AgriculturalMarketing #AgriculturalPrices #CropHarvesting #FoodProcessing #FarmLabour #Wheat

Growers plead for pickers as $150k worth of food ploughed into mulch A farmer ploughs her crops back into the ground and might not grow vegetables next year as backpacker seasonal labour leaves, possibly for good. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-28/growers-plead-for-farm-labour-as-food-ploughed-into-mulch/12814450 #GovernmentandPolitics #AgriculturalCrops #Horticulture #FruitCrops #FarmLabour #Rural

Workers are needed for harvest, but how do you find a job and what's it like? With jobs drying up in Australian cities frozen in the grip of lockdown, urban dwellers head to the country to fill the gap left by foreign workers during harvest time. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-26/labour-shortage-and-lockdown-drives-workers-to-the-harvest-trail/12764258 #AgriculturalPolicy #AgriculturalCrops #SmallBusiness #RuralTourism #FarmLabour #Tourism

Mango prices up, but farmers struggle to find workers to pick them Mango growers are harvesting in the middle of the night to make sure they get the most out of a dwindling labour supply, but price and consumer demand provide a silver lining. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-25/covid-19-is-driving-labour-shortages-and-higher-prices-nt-mango/12806046 #ScienceandTechnology #AgriculturalPrices #Horticulture #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #COVID-19 #Rural

'Scary' forecast: Farmers race against rain to harvest grain crop After years of drought, farmers are now working around the clock to get their first crop since 2016 off before it rains. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-22/grain%C2%A0growers-race-against-the-rain-to-get-winter-crop-off/12796874 #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #Rainfall #Drought #Grain #Wheat

Bring back the backpackers, or we'll all pay — desperate farmers plea to the Government Farmers and tourism operators plead with the Federal Government to allow backpackers into Australia, with fears the cost of produce could rise by 60 per cent without them. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-22/national-farmers-federation-pleads-backpackers-labour-shortfall/12798942 #AgriculturalPolicy #FederalGovernment #FarmLabour #Tourism #Work

Farmer drives tractor half a kilometre after arm ripped off in hay baler NSW farmers are busier than they've been in years, but they're being urged to slow down amid a string of accidents, including two deaths and a gruesome incident that saw a man's arm taken "completely off his body". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-21/farm-accidents-in-riverina-spark-worksafe-harvest-warning/12797060 #OccupationalHealthandSafety #CropHarvesting #FarmLabour #Harvesting #Workplace

Farmers accuse Government of driving dodgy labour by not supporting illegal worker amnesty Farmers are angered as the Government rules out an illegal worker amnesty that would allow undocumented workers to come forward without fear of being deported. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-20/government-rules-out-worker-amnesty/12784968 #GovernmentandPolitics #AgriculturalPolicy #FederalGovernment #CropHarvesting #Horticulture #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #Workplace

This Myanmar refugee is learning to drive tractors to ease the ag worker squeeze Refugees and migrants are being trained in basic agricultural skills as part of a new course aimed at addressing farm labour shortages. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-16/myanmar-refugee-learning-to-drive-tractors-to-ease-squeeze/12761968 #CommunityandSociety #CommunityEducation #AccessToEducation #CropHarvesting #AdultEducation #Agribusiness #Immigration #Agriculture #FarmLabour #Refugees #Rural

Farmers vie to keep staff as 'tables turn' putting backpackers in demand From flexible work to recreation, farmers are finding innovating ways to keep seasonal workers and backpackers on the payroll for longer, as the estimated 26,000 staff shortage looms. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-15/queensland-farmers-find-solutions-bridge-worker-shortage-covid/12767410 #FederalGovernment #Horticulture #FarmLabour #FruitCrops #Fruit #Work

Tour guides swap outback treks for Tasmanian farm work until borders reopen When Holger Strie's tour guide business was compromised by the pandemic, he found plenty of other work for staff on his Tasmanian farm. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-11/trekking-guides-put-to-work-on-tasmanian-farm/12689962 #SustainableandAlternativeFarming #RuralTourism #FarmLabour

Family desperate to bring home body of Tongan seasonal worker killed by snakebite Relatives of a Tongan fruit picker, who died from a snakebite in Far North Queensland, call for his body to be flown home quickly as COVID-19 restrictions delay repatriation process. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-09/tongan-community-mourns-death-of-seasonal-worker-bi/12748578 #FarmLabour #Reptiles #Death

Backpacker employer fined $65k over farm death linked to heat stress A man is fined for failing to properly train his workers, contributing to the death of a backpacker on a Queensland watermelon farm from the effects of hot weather. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-09/backpacker-death-employer-fined-heat-stress-queensland-summer/12744702 #OccupationalHealthandSafety #CourtsandTrials #FarmLabour #Workplace

Young blood help tackle national shearer shortage Shearing is a tough job, but many young Victorians are travelling from far and wide to learn the skill, with record numbers attending shearing and wool-handling classes this year. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-09-28/national-shearer-shortage-young-victorians-learn-the-art/12710116 #AgriculturalCrops #LivestockWelfare #FarmLabour #RuralYouth #Wool

Out-of-work pilots retrain as machinery operators for WA grain harvest International airline pilots are being retrained to operate harvest machinery as COVID-19 grounds flights and keeps farm workers from where they are needed. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-09-27/covid-19-border-closures-see-pilots-join-grains-harvest/12702680 #CropHarvesting #AirTransport #FarmLabour #COVID-19

How to harvest a crop in the middle of a pandemic COVID-19 travel restrictions for workers, a bumper crop and need for more storage are all combining to create challenges for NSW grain farmers this harvest. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-22/north-west-farmers-prepare-for-harvest/12685056 #AgriculturalPrices #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #COVID-19 #Drought

Border jumpers fined after 'desperate' bid to find work in regional NSW A couple from Malaysia are fined for illegally crossing the Victorian border in the desperate hope of finding farm work due to their "dire financial situation". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-15/malaysian-couple-fined-for-border-crossing/12664934 #InfectiousDiseases(Other) #Unemployment #HealthPolicy #FarmLabour #COVID-19 #Work

Orchardist takes 'drastic measures', pulls out apple trees amid labour shortages Ray Guadagnino has been growing apples for almost 50 years. Following a "heartbreaking" decision he is now pulling out more than 1,500 apple trees because he can't get workers to harvest his crops. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-09-09/orchard-labour-shortages-pulls-tree-in-heartbreaking-decision/12644302 #DiseasesandDisorders #CropHarvesting #FarmLabour #COVID-19

Call for Australians to backpack in their own backyards and stop fruit going to rot A strawberry grower has made a patriotic call on Australians to "pick for your country" to stem the labour shortage that's already resulting in fruit being left to rot. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-09-07/backpack-in-your-own-backyard-to-pick-fruit/12635890 #Business,EconomicsandFinance #AgriculturalCrops #FoodandBeverage #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #Industry #Rural

Family apple orchards dwindle in the famous growing region of Harcourt The Pollards have been growing apples in Harcourt for over a century, but their apple growing history might soon be at an end. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-09-07/family-orchards-dwindle-in-famous-apple-growing-region/12635254 #AgriculturalCrops #FarmLabour #Rural #Fruit

Impatient drivers are forcing farmers to install dash cams in their tractors Farmers in WA's South West are installing dashboard cameras in their tractors to protect themselves after a number of close calls with impatient drivers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-07/tractor-dash-cams-installed-to-protect-from-impatient-drivers/12629578 #TrafficOffences #RoadTransport #FarmLabour #Accidents #Police #Rural #Road