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Air Date: Sun 7 Feb 2021
Expires: in 2 months

Farmers around the country are desperate to fill a huge worker shortage as their produce begins to wither on the vine. And while that problem unfolds hundreds of KMs from the big smoke, that shortage could soon see your weekly shop sky-rocket.

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