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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 […]
Category Archives: Harvest Trail Information Service
National Harvest Labour Information Services Articles
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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 […]
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Welcome back backpackers! The borders are open again and you are starting to head Down Under once more. Want to stay a second year? Just want to get out in the fresh air and earn some cash? Farm work is almost a rite of passage for Working Holidaymakers, but a bit of information can make […]
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Minimum wages for pieceworkers The rules have changed how some farms pay workers. When working on piece-work you are now entitled to a minimum wage. However, what might seem like good news has a sting in the tail. The upside of piecework For almost forever, a characteristic of working on Australian horticulture farms has been […]
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Four hours from Melbourne and serviced by our two offices located in Swan Hill and Robinvale, the Mid Murray Harvest Region stretches from Boort in the South to Robinvale in the North, and Barham in the East to Sea Lake in the West. The Mid Murray Region is renowned for its variety of harvest commodities […]
Current COVID driven economic conditions and nationwide labour shortages continue to impact our national agriculture industry. Horticulture farmers, whilst typically resilient, are certainly not immune, with many experiencing unprecedented labour issues across the entire sector. Seasonal labour sourcing is again tricky. Labour shortages are driving farmers to increase wages and upgrade their employee conditions to […]
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Mar
Mar
We are pleased to introduce Julian Banks as our new State Manager for the Harvest Trail Information Service. Over the next six months while Rob Hayes enjoys some long service leave, Julian will cover Rob’s patch – Victoria and southern WA. Julian joins HTIS after 18 months looking after the Northern NSW region for the […]
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Mar
As the seasons roll on throughout the regions, we all have noted the change in availability of labour and difficulty in attracting labour especially the right labour and this, unfortunately, effects all industries but most significantly the horticulture industry. Over the past 12 months the use of Harvest Trail Services in Far North Queensland has […]
The new piecerate floor – are you ready? Every now and again a major change to the way we do business is forced upon us. Some resist, some complain, while others get on with working out how to deal with the change. The new piecework minimum wage is one such change. Why have piecerates existed? […]
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Nuts to you! When we think of food harvested from Australian farms, we often just consider grain, fruit and vegetables – but what about nuts? Shake ‘em or leave ‘em? Australia’s two biggest nut commodities are almonds and our very own native macadamias – grown in very different parts of the country. Almonds thrive in […]