Ag visa not dead, but needs more workforce data

Mike Foley
Updated October 30 2018 - 4:49pm, first published 4:30pm
PICKED: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and the Liberal Member for Fisher Andrew Wallace (left) are watched by farmer Brendon Hoyle as they sample strawberries during a visit to the Ashbern strawberry farm on the Sunshine Coast last month. Photo by AAP Image/Dan Peled
PICKED: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and the Liberal Member for Fisher Andrew Wallace (left) are watched by farmer Brendon Hoyle as they sample strawberries during a visit to the Ashbern strawberry farm on the Sunshine Coast last month. Photo by AAP Image/Dan Peled

The National Farmers’ Federation is urging producers to sign up to a labour survey as it ramps up pressure on the federal government for a new class of visa for unskilled farm labour.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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