Australia’s biggest carrot oversupply in 25 years has prompted farmers, along with chefs and winemakers, to get creative and use the popular vegetable in foams, consommes and infuse it in vodka.

Carrot farmers are faced with the tough decision of what to do with the excess of carrots while wanting to avoid the product, hailed as the second most purchased vegetable in Australia, ending up as food waste.

Australia is facing its largest carrot oversupply in 25 years.

Carrot farm Kalfresh in Queensland’s Scenic Rim has paddocks full of excess carrots, and director and farmer Rob Hinrichsen has said he has never seen Australia’s carrot market as bad as it currently is.

Mr Hinrichsen put the excess in vegetables down to optimal growing conditions, big crop yields and Russia’s ban on European imports for having a domino effect on the world carrot market.