31: HoA "Many hands make light work" with James Terry

Today we're venturing down to the asparagus marshlands of Koo Wee Rup to chat with James Terry. James is a grower, exporter, trader, people manager, logistics organizer – you name it and it could quite possibly be in his job description.

I'm excited about this one, we're doing a bit of a pow wow as we chat all things asparagus and this year in particularly has been challenging from the aspect of weather, transport and logistics, access to labour and everything in between.

So interesting facts:

- The 24 hour supply chain sees product picked and marketed quite often within 24 hours.

- Every single spear involves people and hands.

- Robotic automation has proven to be too slow and human power is far more efficient

-  Some of the pickers have been away from their families back home in Vanuatu for more than 12 months