> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-330/
- Published: 2021-03-20T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-21T21:04:51.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Business, COVID-19, Featured, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

#### Major Strawberry Grower Perrys Berrys Calls It Quits Amid Labour Shortage

> **Francie Perry**, a stalwart of New Zealand horticulture and an outspoken critic of the Government’s inflexible Covid-19 border policy for foreign workers, is throwing in the towel after 40 years of strawberry growing.  
>  
> Perrys Berrys is among the largest berry growers in the country and appears to be the first major operator to fall victim to a harvest season hampered by a shortage of thousands of workers.  
>  
> Contacted by *The Herald*, Perry, aged 71, declined to comment. In recent months she has told both customers and suppliers that Perrys Berrys, the strawberry growing company she founded and owns jointly with daughter Katie Perich, will not plant another crop.

[Read the full article here. ](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/major-strawberry-grower-perrys-berrys-calls-it-quits-amid-labour-shortage/EVV3WCSJJQBJUGZ4FTKPAJ56QE/?ref=goodoil.news)Comment on it on *The BFD.*