More than 180 jobs have been axed just weeks before Christmas after a fourth generation family farming enterprise collapsed.
Dicky Bill Australia, which supplies major supermarkets across the country, including supermarket giant, Coles, has been placed into voluntary administration owing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The company operates salad farms in Gippsland and Queensland, providing fresh produce to major retail chains.
Dicky Bill operated farms at Maffra in Victoria and in Drinan, outside of Bundaberg in Queensland, and grew leafy salad vegetables and herbs.
The timing of the collapse has left workers facing…