SPECIAL REPORT POST-HARVEST INFRASTRUCTURE
Farmers: planning for the future The past few years have thrown up challenges for the farming community that would even make Hanrahan feel he was living in a rural paradise. Hanrahan may have thought that we would all “be rooned” but he didn’t figure on the resilience and strength of farming Australia.
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Words TONY BLACKIE
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espite increasing delays in the supply of goods with the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) reporting that 30 per cent of Australian businesses have experienced major supply chain disruptions in 2021, farmers are continuing to plan for the implementation of infrastructure purchases. Not deterred by a decade of drought, followed by massive bushfires, then a global pandemic, and then floods and a mice plague, crises that would have been more than most businesses could handle, the rural sector is capitalising on two years of rain to plan ahead. >
JAN - FEB 2022
THE FARMER
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