Farmers quitting in droves – and not happy about going

By Andrew Marshall
Updated August 2 2016 - 7:21am, first published August 1 2016 - 5:30am
Cotton growers, intensive livestock producers and  mixed sheep-wheat-beef enterprise owners are least likely to be leaving their farms, but 27 per cent of Australian primary producers expect to quit within five years.
Cotton growers, intensive livestock producers and mixed sheep-wheat-beef enterprise owners are least likely to be leaving their farms, but 27 per cent of Australian primary producers expect to quit within five years.

Agriculture’s fortunes might look pretty good for many at the moment, but more than a quarter of Australia’s farmers are likely to leave their farms by the end of this decade.

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