Growers Push for Better Fruit and Vegetable Prices

Apparently Australian growers have been feeling the same financial pinch that American growers are feeling. After years of their own costs going up without a corresponding increase in crop prices, Aussie farmers are fighting back. Banding together, they’re demanding better deals from the country’s top grocery chains.Labor laws that increase minimum wage and make farm workers eligible for overtime pay spurred growers to take action, a local Australian paper reports.A sharp increase in transportation costs had already been pinching wallets, so the new labor costs threatened to strip farms of any profit.