Queensland pineapples might be rotting in the field - consumers urged to buy up tropical fruit
Queensland pineapples will be left to rot in fields as farmers struggle to keep up with a prematurely ripened crop. Unseasonal winter rain caused a mass natural flowering event on farms across the state, resulting in fruit coming online all at once rather than in staggered intervals.
Central Queensland grower Ben Clifton grows the fruit in Bungundarra, about 50 kilometres north
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