Category Archives: Harvest Trail Talk

Trail Talk

National Harvest Guide – New edition, June 2022

The latest edition of the National Harvest Guide is now available. This guide is produced to assist horticulture jobseekers, both Aussies and overseas visitors, locate picking and packing and other harvest jobs across all major horticulture areas in Australia. It contains crop calendars for all areas: and a description of the location, how to get […]

Biosecurity – Footwear on the farm

Managing footwear on farm Important information from the Queensland Department of Agriculture & Fisheries – What is farm biosecurity? Biosecurity refers to all the measures taken to minimise the risk of infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms entering, emerging, establishing or spreading on farm, potentially harming the population, our food security and […]

Piecework

Making the new piecework floor work for you Can the new piece-rate floor attract workers? Every change is an opportunity. Like it or not, the new piecework floor is now required By now you will have been inundated with information about the new piece rate regime that came into effect on 28 April 2022.  Regardless […]

Worker Profile – Weylan Gaskin

MADEC recently caught up with South Australian local Weylan Gaskin, while he was working in the beautiful Barossa to talk all things harvest work! Weylan who previously worked in a warehouse as a forklift operator, had never looked to harvest work before he found MADEC Harvest Trail Services. MADEC Harvest Trail Services introduced Weylan to […]

Grower Profile – Marenny Vale Orchards

Marenny Vale Orchards is based across 3 locations in the Bunbartha and Nathalia area of the City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria.  The family owned farm is third generation ‘fruit salad’ farmers. In the late 1980’s the owners (Mark & Jenny Morey) bought an abandoned citrus grove in Nathalia which they developed into a highly productive […]

In Season – Asian Greens

The Australian horticulture sector is vast, and it’s easy for certain fruit and vegetables to get lost amongst the staple groceries you buy each week from your favourite retailer or fresh produce market. We want to let you in on a secret – a diverse range of leafy Asian greens are grown year-round across Australia.  […]

Site Profile – BEST Harvest Trail Services

The best of both worlds Country living with easy access to city perks is where the BEST Harvest Trail Service calls home. With their Gatton office located just over an hour from Brisbane and their Stanthorpe office a breezy two and a half hours away, the Darling Downs harvest region ticks all the boxes when […]

Mid Murray Harvest Trail Region

Four hours from Melbourne and serviced by our two offices located in Swan Hill and Robinvale, the Mid Murray Harvest Region stretches from Boort in the South to Robinvale in the North, and Barham in the East to Sea Lake in the West. The Mid Murray Region is renowned for its variety of harvest commodities […]

Wage Subsidies

Current COVID driven economic conditions and nationwide labour shortages continue to impact our national agriculture industry. Horticulture farmers, whilst typically resilient, are certainly not immune, with many experiencing unprecedented labour issues across the entire sector. Seasonal labour sourcing is again tricky. Labour shortages are driving farmers to increase wages and upgrade their employee conditions to […]

Bio: Julian Banks, HTIS State Manager

We are pleased to introduce Julian Banks as our new State Manager for the Harvest Trail Information Service. Over the next six months while Rob Hayes enjoys some long service leave, Julian will cover Rob’s patch – Victoria and southern WA. Julian joins HTIS after 18 months looking after the Northern NSW region for the […]