It is a future we could soon be facing if a business owner in South Australia has his way.

Ben Johnson from George and Ben’s Fresh Food Market at Pooraka in Adelaide is currently pushing to ban farmers markets in his state.

The business owner wants to ban the markets because his Saturday profits have dropped since the farmers markets in his district opened.

Social media has erupted with people who oppose the ban.

Wagga’s Wollundry Farmers Markets chairman Ken Taylor said he is setting a dangerous precedent for other states and that he would fight if it looked to affect the Riverina’s markets.

“I’m fairly aghast,” he said.

“It’s a fairly shotgun approach to his own marketing problems.

“They are going to cause so much extra damage.

“It will be binding within South Australia and could be used as a guiding precedent in other states.”

Mr Taylor said the local farmers markets have just been rejuvenated and it has garnered a hugely popular response from attendees.

Wollundry Rotary has donated more than $1 million to local charities from the farmers markets since its inception 12 years ago.

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“It would seriously affect community fundraisers and people’s choice as to where and how they shop,” he said.

“We are not the only community organisation that runs this sort of thing.

“Farmers markets provide a venue for people to get together in a village setting and do their shopping.”

Mr Taylor said small producers will be the biggest losers if the legal action is successful.

He is worried that Wagga residents will miss out on the access to fresh produce that they have grown accustomed to.

“You’d stop small producers from getting product straight to the people,” he said.

“We are going to lose good quality produce and get the same mass-produced garbage you can get anywhere.

“Choice is going to be cut down remarkably.”

The face-to-face contact customers have with growers is the appeal of farmers markets, according to Mr Taylor.

Mr Taylor believes customers want fresher produce and get sick of fruit and vegetables that do not last or cook the same from the supermarket.

The farmers markets last month featured 43 vendors, 25 to 30 of which rely on the markets for their income.

Mr Taylor said the December markets will be bigger.

The farmers markets are held on the second Saturday of the month from 8am to 1pm at the Civic Precinct.