Category Archives: Harvest Trail Information Service

While many industries are brought to a grinding halt due to COVID restrictions, horticulture continues to plough on with the need for people to perform critical roles within the industry. MADEC Harvest Trail Services continues to deliver business as usual to both growers and workers through restrictions and lockdowns. MADEC Harvest Trail Services have developed […]

We are pleased to introduce Kristy Banks as our new Queensland State Manager for the Harvest Trail Information Service. Kristy brings with her a wealth of life experience and has several years of direct involvement with horticulture operations and labour coordination. A rural upbringing Growing up in Gisborne in rural Victoria, Kristy got a taste […]

John Petrucci, Petrucci Vineyards MADEC Harvest Trail Services Manager, Mark McAllister caught up with John and Shana Petrucci from Petrucci Vineyards in McLaren Vale to share their background and experiences in the wine grapes industry. How did you find yourself in McLaren Vale? Our family purchased land in McLaren Vale in 1976 and not long […]

The Sunraysia region Harvest Office is located in Mildura in the north west of Victoria and bordering onto NSW. Mildura is quite remote being 540 km north west of Melbourne, 385 km north east of Adelaide and 1000 km south west of Sydney. Mildura is surrounded by multiple national parks, and the Murray Darling river […]

Incentives the key to mobilising workers It is now about 18 months since the COVID-19 pandemic started to have a significant impact in Australia, with the closure of the international border on 20th March 2020. This has resulted in a substantial shortage of overseas workers. Consequently lots of resources are being directed to encourage Australian […]

If you are an employer that is currently, or have been paying workers, new regulations in Victoria make it an offence to deliberately underpay, dishonestly withhold wages or falsify entitlement records. To put it simply this is known as – wage theft. Beware of committing wage theft Wage theft may not be a term you […]

Relaxation of student visa relief for farmers The temporary relaxation of student visa working hours by the Morrison government in January 2021 provided vital relief to many farmers. When numerous Australian industries were dealing with reduced worker availability, the agricultural sector arguably has been one of the hardest hit. A workforce study conducted by Ernst […]

AgMoves with the times to benefit growers Working in the agricultural sector has become even more accessible with the recent launch of AgMove.  Under recent changes to the relocation assistance scheme, incentives have become more attractive to job seekers. Frankly, there’s never been a better time to find employment or transition into the agricultural industry.   […]