The United States-based company Agriculture Capital Management is harvesting citrus on a 200-hectare property near Berrigan and trying to build an irrigated orchard on 420 ha north of Barooga.
The company's export packing shed is across the Murray River in Cobram.
Harvest labour travels across the border and contractors working on installing 1500 km of irrigation drip tape also come from Victoria.
Company senior regional associate Andrew Mann said the border restrictions due to COVID-19 were causing some frustration.
“We just don't know from week to week what's happening because the rules keep changing.
“If we get the development stopped for a month or so, it will have a massive impact.
“You just can't tell a tree to stop growing.”
The harvest labour is picking about 5500 tonnes of fruit from the Berrigan property, including the high value Sumo Citrus, between June and October.
The NSW Government is considering extending the travel zone to give more freedom to border communities.
On Tuesday, August 25, NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro said the government would, during the following 10 days, look to extend the border zone from 2.5 km to 50 km.
He said this would give more freedom to those on both sides of the border to work and function as a community.
Mr Barilaro also flagged further changes including increasing the distance agricultural workers could travel.
This is the second time the NSW Government has promised amendments to improve life for border communities.
Businesses and farmers living along the border have been unhappy with previous changes and impractical requirements in the detailed conditions.
Mr Barilaro said further changes included allowing the agriculture workforce to travel across the border, initially within a 100 km radius, and creating quarantine areas closer to the border.
He said there would also be quarantine hubs set up along the border in NSW for agricultural workers, some of whom had been told to travel to Melbourne and fly to Sydney to enter the state.