A recent Fonterra shareholder survey has revealed that 45% of the 5000 dairy farmers questioned are feeling the effects of the shortage of skilled and competent farm workers. Businesses are being affected to the extent that some dairy farms are being forced into once a day milking because of the labour shortages.
Farms are recruiting from overseas in order to keep afloat. Jobs are being offered to skilled migrants coming from South Africa, the UK and the Netherlands, with an estimated 150 migrants working in the Southland and Canterbury regions alone.
The minimum starting wage for overseas workers was $34,600 plus benefits, on a 52.5-hour week.
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