Tony Mahar, National Farmers’ Federation Chief Executive Officer, joins Michael regarding the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences forecasting the price of summer vegetables, stone fruit, fruit such as apples and pears and table grapes will jump up to 29 per cent this year.

The collapse of overseas harvest worker numbers, particularly from the Working Holiday Maker program, is behind the price surge in coming months due to the fall in production across regional Australia and food rotting on the ground.

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