Wednesday 28 September 2022 08:32 AM Why Australian farmers are fed up with people taking selfies in canola fields ... trends now
Australian farmers have explained why they are sick of tourists sneaking into their canola fields to take photos, with fears they could cause serious biosecurity risks.
The social media trend of snapping selfies with fields of bright yellow flowers on rural Aussie properties ramps up each Spring season.
But the trespassers have been blocking roads, climbing barriers, cutting through fences and at times, refusing to leave.
The social media trend of snapping selfies with bright yellow flowers on rural Aussie properties ramps up each Spring season (stock picture)
Cowra Canola tours, 300km west of Sydney, offer guided and flying tours of the fields (pictured, an aerial view of an Aussie canola field)
Tourists who want to take snaps in canola fields this season can safely do so through registered tour operators (pictured, a NSW canola field in bloom)
Farmer Tony Flanery found a couple 'literally two kilometres' from the road taking photos in his fields in Galgong, 100km north west of Canberra.
Farmer Tony Flanery (pictured) found a couple 'literally two kilometres' from the road of his property taking photos in fields in Galgong, 100km north west of Canberra
The wheat and canola grower said it was almost impossible to evict them from his land.
'They basically refused to leave. Like they had the camera set up on a tripod and were settling in for the afternoon,' he told the Guardian.
He said another farmer in Boorowa had trespassers cut through his fence to get a car into the paddock, so they could take photos hanging out of the car.
Tim Condon (pictured) works with farmers in NSW and said the trespassers are a 'straight
