AU:Vegetable farms face carbon tax costs
ABARES executive director Paul Morris says there's only a marginal rise for power and fertiliser costs, of up to $3,000 per vegetable farm this financial year, and it will rise again the following in 2013-14.
"With some of the changes going on, with how the price of carbon will be implemented, that impact will increase up to between $1,200 per farm and $4,600 per farm."
But the peak vegetable industry body says the cost impost of the carbon tax is adding to a sector already stressed by high labour costs, fertiliser prices and supermarket duopoly.
Source: abc.net.au