Seasonal labour is the most profitable use of labour in broadacre crop dominant farms

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Many broadacre farms in Western Australia (WA) experience problems in attracting and retaining farm labour. A survey of WA farmers (Rabobank 2007) reported that of the 69 percent of farmers who required additional labour over the previous 12 months, 14 percent said it was ‘impossible’ to find labour. A further 62 percent said they had experienced some difficultly attracting adequate labour. To overcome this labour shortage, 41% of the survey participants said they had increased their own working hours. The increase in farmer workload is causing many farmers to be time-pressed.