Blueberry harvest blues push industry in new directions

By Jamie Brown
November 23 2020 - 5:00am
CONCERN: Kellie Potts, Sandy Beach via Woolgoolga puts on a brave face despite a difficult blueberry harvest but has already taken steps to plant jumbo-sized varieties and is organising her own pool of labour.
CONCERN: Kellie Potts, Sandy Beach via Woolgoolga puts on a brave face despite a difficult blueberry harvest but has already taken steps to plant jumbo-sized varieties and is organising her own pool of labour.

THIS year, 2020, has delivered a shift in on-farm relationships between grower and picker, now being played out on hundreds of blueberry farms around Coffs Harbour, where the last of the winter fruit is being left on bushes and there are real concerns that summer berries, the Rabbit Eye variety, may fall victim to a discerning labour force.

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