Big workforce provider set to tackle harvest labour shortage

Gregor Heard
August 18 2021 - 5:30pm
LIVING THE DREAM: Phil and Julie Stokes worked last year at Charlton in Victoria during harvest and will do so again this year.
LIVING THE DREAM: Phil and Julie Stokes worked last year at Charlton in Victoria during harvest and will do so again this year.

ONE of Australia's largest operations staff providers is joining the fight to help the Australian grains industry find sufficient skilled harvest labour to get this year's forecast bumper crop in the bin.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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