Category Archives: Harvest Trail Information Service

National Harvest Labour Information Services Articles

Tips for travelling workers & WHMs

Travelling around the country looking for harvest or horticulture work? Here are some tips to enable you to do this successfully. Any questions?Call the Harvest Trail Information Service on free call 1800 062 332 for more information. Get information relating to any job offer in writing and be sure of what you are committing yourself […]

Do you need help finding harvest or horticulture work?

Consider using Harvest Trail Services to assist you. No cost, no obligation, no risk. Contact the Harvest Trail Information Service or your nearest Harvest Trail Services Office.   Harvest Trail Service Offices Contact List South West WA – Rural Enterprises Australia Unit 1, 14 Burler Drive, Vasse, WA 6280 08 6166 9124 hts@ruralenterprises.com.au   Top […]

Working backpackers – getting there and staying there

Travelling Australia chasing farm work is the means by which many backpackers extend their stay. But how do you get to the farm and where do you stay once you’ve arrived? Here are some tips. Want to extend your working holiday? Some tips Backpackers are starting to return to Australia.  Before COVID they made up […]

Vigilance – The key to farm safety

Here is an article by Kiara Stacey, Journalist with the Stock Journal – Incidents of on-farm deaths have decreased by 20% in 2021 nationally, compared with 2020, according to the latest figures in the Non-intentional Farm Related Incidents in Australia 2021 report prepared by AgHealth Australia. In 2021, tractors were listed the highest cause of […]

Tips to secure a viable workforce

Successful strategies used by growers to secure a viable workforce in times of significant labour shortage? Over the past few years, Harvest Trail Service providers have collected information from a large number of growers and employers across the country. Here are some of the most successful strategies used by growers to secure and retain a […]

National Harvest Guide – New edition, June 2022

The latest edition of the National Harvest Guide is now available. This guide is produced to assist horticulture jobseekers, both Aussies and overseas visitors, locate picking and packing and other harvest jobs across all major horticulture areas in Australia. It contains crop calendars for all areas: and a description of the location, how to get […]

Biosecurity – Footwear on the farm

Managing footwear on farm Important information from the Queensland Department of Agriculture & Fisheries – What is farm biosecurity? Biosecurity refers to all the measures taken to minimise the risk of infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms entering, emerging, establishing or spreading on farm, potentially harming the population, our food security and […]

Piecework

Making the new piecework floor work for you Can the new piece-rate floor attract workers? Every change is an opportunity. Like it or not, the new piecework floor is now required By now you will have been inundated with information about the new piece rate regime that came into effect on 28 April 2022.  Regardless […]

Worker Profile – Weylan Gaskin

MADEC recently caught up with South Australian local Weylan Gaskin, while he was working in the beautiful Barossa to talk all things harvest work! Weylan who previously worked in a warehouse as a forklift operator, had never looked to harvest work before he found MADEC Harvest Trail Services. MADEC Harvest Trail Services introduced Weylan to […]

Grower Profile – Marenny Vale Orchards

Marenny Vale Orchards is based across 3 locations in the Bunbartha and Nathalia area of the City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria.  The family owned farm is third generation ‘fruit salad’ farmers. In the late 1980’s the owners (Mark & Jenny Morey) bought an abandoned citrus grove in Nathalia which they developed into a highly productive […]