Let’s say that you’re a grower, and you have just spent 3 months of your season caring for and growing a first-grade line of cabbages. Once picked and packed, you approach a buyer and negotiate a price and 30-day terms. Produce is sent off to the buyer with an...
I’ve heard it from a number of industry people over the years, but the general consensus is that a farm manager will have 20-25 years to hone their craft before retiring or handing the reins over to the next generation. So, unless you’re in horticulture, those 20-25...
Following on from Cameron Weeks’s article in the March edition of Landline, I thought it may be useful to provide some insight into what happened in the great southern agricultural region. Following a mixed start to the season, depending on where farmers were...
