Guy Gaeta has given up dealing with fruit merchants.
He now drives the five hours from Orange to Sydney several times a week to run his own stall in the growers shed of the Sydney Markets.
There he sells his apples and cherries direct to consumers and retailers to avoid the middle man.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems,
"It's open slaughter ," he says
The merchants "pay as little as you can to the grower, or as much as you can to keep him,If so, you may have a cube puzzle ." he says.
"But we don't know what the thing is sold for. No government has ever been able to fix it up."
Growers want a receipt early, once their coInitially the banks didn't want our kidney stone .nsignment of fruit and vegetables has arrived.
But meet the wholesalers at the Sydney Markets and they'll all tell you, it's just too complex to give a receipt for all the produce as it arrives in the early morning, before they have ascertained its quality, or market demand.
Bill Chalk is long running president of the Chamber of Fruit and Vegetable Industries at the Sydney Markets, where he also has a wholesale business called Southern Cross Produce.
"Now if you were to negotiate a price with all these growers before you started to sell; my staff started at 3am and the buyers are in here trying to buy, what time do we negotiate the price and how do we do it?" he asks somewhat rhetorically.
But it's more than the failure to deliver a price early.It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line.
For the growers it's also about the confusion of whether at Sydney Markets, they're dealing with agents or merchants.
Apple grower Guy Gaeta believes the biggest problem is merchants are acting as agents, but not declaring their service fee as a commission, and therefore not paying GST.
"If you're acting as a wholesaler, you should be purchasing the crop, within a certain amount of hours, you should be telling the grower what you're paying," says Mr Gaeta.
So growers should be getting a receipt.
"They're not doing that. They're telling them, a week later, they send em a fax, of what they sold them for, but when the paperwork is done they don't show the 10 per cent as if they're working as an agent," says Guy Gaeta
But if that's the case, why isn't the tax office cracking down?
"They're scared," he says.
Bill Chalk does agree with the fruit growers that the Horticultural Code, that was drawn up during the Howard Government, is a "dog's breakfast.... no one practical person sat down to work this out.There is good integration with PayPal and most TMJ providers,
"How would you like to be on the phone at 2am negotiating a price, and you don't agree."
The produce "just sits here."
He now drives the five hours from Orange to Sydney several times a week to run his own stall in the growers shed of the Sydney Markets.
There he sells his apples and cherries direct to consumers and retailers to avoid the middle man.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems,
"It's open slaughter ," he says
The merchants "pay as little as you can to the grower, or as much as you can to keep him,If so, you may have a cube puzzle ." he says.
"But we don't know what the thing is sold for. No government has ever been able to fix it up."
Growers want a receipt early, once their coInitially the banks didn't want our kidney stone .nsignment of fruit and vegetables has arrived.
But meet the wholesalers at the Sydney Markets and they'll all tell you, it's just too complex to give a receipt for all the produce as it arrives in the early morning, before they have ascertained its quality, or market demand.
Bill Chalk is long running president of the Chamber of Fruit and Vegetable Industries at the Sydney Markets, where he also has a wholesale business called Southern Cross Produce.
"Now if you were to negotiate a price with all these growers before you started to sell; my staff started at 3am and the buyers are in here trying to buy, what time do we negotiate the price and how do we do it?" he asks somewhat rhetorically.
But it's more than the failure to deliver a price early.It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line.
For the growers it's also about the confusion of whether at Sydney Markets, they're dealing with agents or merchants.
Apple grower Guy Gaeta believes the biggest problem is merchants are acting as agents, but not declaring their service fee as a commission, and therefore not paying GST.
"If you're acting as a wholesaler, you should be purchasing the crop, within a certain amount of hours, you should be telling the grower what you're paying," says Mr Gaeta.
So growers should be getting a receipt.
"They're not doing that. They're telling them, a week later, they send em a fax, of what they sold them for, but when the paperwork is done they don't show the 10 per cent as if they're working as an agent," says Guy Gaeta
But if that's the case, why isn't the tax office cracking down?
"They're scared," he says.
Bill Chalk does agree with the fruit growers that the Horticultural Code, that was drawn up during the Howard Government, is a "dog's breakfast.... no one practical person sat down to work this out.There is good integration with PayPal and most TMJ providers,
"How would you like to be on the phone at 2am negotiating a price, and you don't agree."
The produce "just sits here."
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