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Home-grown labour series: Attracting domestic workers into the livestock industry

The livestock sector has a proven track record of attracting and maintaining domestic labour on-farm, with an extremely low reliance on migrant workers. Hannah Binns explores the reasons behind this.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
clock • 4 min read
Home-grown labour series: Attracting domestic workers into the livestock industry

The livestock sector has a proven track record of attracting and maintaining domestic labour on-farm, with an extremely low reliance on migrant workers. Hannah Binns explores the reasons behind this...

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