Food waste costs agriculture up to $2 billion every year

Kim Chappell
April 6 2020 - 1:30pm
Food waste hitting farmers' hip pocket to the tune of $2b
Food waste hitting farmers' hip pocket to the tune of $2b

THIRTY-ONE per cent of produce is being wasted before it even gets off farm - that's lost income for farmers and lost product for supermarket shelves.

Kim Chappell

Kim Chappell

Senior Producer - Digital

As Senior Producer - Digital for ACM's regional titles I assist newsrooms in digital best practice. Before this role, I was the digital journalist with ACM's national team and prior to that, the digital specialist with ACM's Agricultural division. I started as a general rounds journalist with The Land in 2006, moving up to hold the title of chief of staff before switching to digital reporting in 2015.