Farm sitters settle in

Updated October 9 2015 - 8:15am, first published 4:00am
Dave and Lorraine Butler from Goonellabah, farm sitting Cooinda, Goondiwindi, for the Sharpe family.
Dave and Lorraine Butler from Goonellabah, farm sitting Cooinda, Goondiwindi, for the Sharpe family.

FARM sitting has been plugging gaps left by the trend for retired producers to relocate to the coast and the mining boom induced farm labour shortage in the past decade, but now it's emerging as the newest agriculture profession.

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