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  SunPork takes employee wellbeing seriously
ployee wellbeing and engagement, but more importantly to show SunPork employees that the business is listening and that it wants to make a real difference to their experience.
What’s Crackling, one of SunPork Group’s two new employee-focussed initia- tives to enhance wellbeing and engagement.
SUNPORK Group takes its employees’ feedback seriously and have a genuine desire to enhance the overall wellbeing and engage- ment of its employees to make SunPork an even better place to work.
ditional employee wellbeing initiatives – What’s Crackling and an employee assistance program.
retailers in Australia. The other SunPork employee wellbeing in- itiative is the employee
employees and family members will have ac- cess to counselling ses- sions via phone, face- to-face or online.
Partnering with Re- ward Gateway to create What’s Crackling, it is the new home of all SunPork communica- tions, recognition, em- ployee wellbeing and discount benefits.
assistance program. The program is a free confidential all day and all week service where
These initiatives have been designed to help improve overall em-
  Last year, the business proactively reviewed its existing employee benefits and formed a cross-functional project team to explore and im- plement new wellbeing initiatives.
All SunPork em- ployees can now expect: • Improved and streamlined communi- cations, including com-
This resulted in the introduction of a flex- ible work and paid parental leave policy, as well as partnering with Franklin Covey and LinkedIn Learning from a learning and de- velopment perspective.
pany news and updates • Brand new ways to
SunPork recently in- troduced two new ad-
and cashback offers to over 400 of the biggest
recognise peers • Access to
a well- being centre to help to stay mentally, physi- cally and financially
healthy
• Exclusive discounts
The Queensland Agriculture Industry Workforce Plan 2022-2027 will ensure there is a modern and skilled workforce ready to meet the growth and opportunities in the agriculture industry.
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sustainable, productive and fair agriculture employers and training providers collaborate, engage and develop a diverse and skilled workforce in Queensland’s regions.
and becoming employers of choice
• Adaptability and busi- ness capability – devel- oping entrepreneurship and business capability for innovation and adapta- tion to change
• Workforce attraction and diversity – developing a diverse and inclusive fu- ture agriculture workforce
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• Workforce retention – developing agriculture careers and opportunities
• Workforce skilling – developing future work- force skills in agriculture.
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  Farm finances boom but costs forecast to bite
GOOD rainfall and high commodity prices have driven strong farm financial performance for 2021-22.
gains in Australian agri- culture have helped drive the strong farm perform- ance result in 2020-21.
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Re- source Economics ex- ecutive director Dr Jared Greenville said crop- ping farms had reported higher than average cash incomes over the past year.
“Over the long-term, average annual pro- ductivity growth in the broadacre industry was 1 percent, and 1.3 percent in the dairy industry.
“It’s been a boom year,” Dr Greenville said.
“Looking beyond the averages, we see that broadacre sector performance is being driven by larger farms, with the largest 10 per- cent of broadacre farms producing around half of total output, while the smallest 50 percent of farms produce around 10 percent of total output.”
“At the national level, farm cash income for cropping farms is esti- mated to have increased by around 28 percent to average $619,000 per farm in 2021-22.
Financial perform- ance of cropping farms 2019-20 to 2021-22 can be read at awe.gov.au/ abares/research-topics/ surveys/cropping
“We can put this down to higher receipts from wheat, barley, oilseeds, and grain legumes.
“That said, prices are higher for farm inputs such as fuel and ferti- liser, and this has af- fected returns and will do so even more into 2022-23.”
Financial perform- ance of livestock farms 2019-20 to 2021-22 can be read at awe.gov.au/ abares/research-topics/ surveys/livestock
It has been a solid year for livestock producers as well.
The Australian Agri- cultural Productivity 2020-21 dashboard can be accessed at awe.gov. au/abares/research- topics/productivity/ag ricultural-productivity- estimates
“At the national level, average farm cash in- come for livestock farms is estimated to have in- creased by around 10 percent in 2021-22 to average $202,000 per farm,” Dr Greenville said.
The Disaggregating Farm Performance Sta- tistics by Size dashboard can be accessed at awe. gov.au/abares/research- topics/surveys/disaggre gating-farm-size
“A combination of high commodity prices, espe- cially for beef cattle, and good seasonal conditions have delivered strong fi- nancial returns for live- stock producers.
Farm data portal can be accessed at awe.gov. au/abares/data/farm- data-portal
“Ongoing productivity
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