A rough winter for grain growers on the east coast has led the Australian government commodity forecaster, ABARES, to predict a 12 per cent drop in winter grain production from last year's total.
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| Crops in New South Wales and Queensland have wilted through the drought this winter. |
Released this morning, the latest crop report is tipping winter production — including wheat, barley, canola, pulses and oats, among others — to yield 33.2 million tonnes.
Overall, the harvest is nine per cent below the 20-year average.
Just two season ago, farmers across Australia's grain growing regions were preparing to reap a record-breaking 59 million tonne harvest.
But this year fortunes will vary wildly depending on what side of the country crops are growing, with drought-sapped crops on the east coast and predictions of a bumper harvest in Western Australia's wheatbelt.
Read ABC Rural story by Clint Jasper - “Drought bites in the east as ABARES forecasts 12pc cut to grain production.”
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