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| Family farms are considered to be the backbone of the Australian agricultural industry. In recent years farmers have been faced by the increasing competition of foreign food imports, falling commodity prices, an oversupply of agricultural products, large-scale agribusiness firms and increased technological interventions. Here on the Cook Highway in Queensland a farmer tends to planting Sugar Cane on his family farm. | |||
| Photograph © 2003 Andrew Kaufman | |||