Innovation reducing on-farm food waste

By Stuart Armitage, Qff President
Updated May 24 2017 - 10:36am, first published 10:25am

On-farm food waste has once again been placed front and centre of our national consciousness with the airing the ABC’s TV series War on Waste. The program highlighted many of the frustrations farmers have with the current levels of on-farm waste still being experienced within our sector. One estimate of fruit and vegetable waste on Australian farms claimed that 20 to 40 per cent can be rejected before the produce arrives at the supermarket.

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