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Acting ABARES Executive Director Peter Gooday (Photo: ABARES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 2, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australian citizens dominate the agriculture workforce, with overseas workers more common on horticultural farms, the latest ABARES farm survey has revealed.<\/p>\n

The “Demand for Farm Workers: ABARES Farm Survey Results 2018” report, released on Wednesday, found local residents were the most commonly employed workers on farms with backpackers dominating the overseas cohort.<\/p>\n

ABARES surveyed more than 2400 farms covering broadacre, dairy, vegetable and some irrigation industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamily and other Australian workers make up the majority of the agricultural workforce,\u201d ABARES\u2019 acting Executive Director Peter Gooday said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dependence on workers living nearby highlights the importance of a pool of local workers to agricultural industries and may reflect limited mobility in the Australian agricultural workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horticultural farms reported the most use of workers on a visa to help meet seasonal needs.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, most of these visa holders were backpackers on working holiday maker visas, with relatively few farms accessing workers through the Seasonal Worker Program.<\/p>\n

The survey found that rates of recruitment were relatively low for agriculture compared with the rest of the economy.<\/p>\n

Low rates in part reflected the dominance of family labour reducing the need to recruit, particularly on dairy and broadacre farms.<\/p>\n

Farmers surveyed generally filled their vacancies, and recruitment difficulties were similar or less common than businesses across the rest of the economy.<\/p>\n

However, some farmers in more remote areas had more difficulty recruiting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese farms have a smaller pool of local labour to draw on and some backpackers may be less willing to travel to work,\u201d Mr Gooday said.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that vegetable farms near cities had more difficultly recruiting workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey may face greater competition for workers and they can\u2019t offer work qualifying backpackers for a visa extension,\u201d Mr Gooday said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, farms had more difficulty recruiting higher skilled positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis issue is not unique to agriculture and highlights the importance of access to agricultural training and the need to offer competitive wages and conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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