Aust Wheat Crop

[malleefarmer]

Another day another 27c of temps with winds. 1/10th of an inch overnight anyone who thinks the aust wheat can pull a rabbit out of a hat and save itself are wrong wrong wrong.

Myself im factoring in 50% of average at this stage many guys are worse

The next significant event is forecast for last week of sept alot of crops will br toast by then unless we have cool temps dispesed with showers now and until the next event gets here.

[malleefarmer]

The possibility of Australia having to import grain looms again as winter crops throughout the country start to fade fast through lack of rain.

Farmers in NSW planted wall to wall after the best and most timely start to the season for years, but apart from a deluge on the northern slopes and plains three weeks ago there has been little useful rain since.

Croppers west of the Newell Highway have already started baling faltering wheat and barley plantings, or at least those crops with enough bulk to warrant doing so.

Unless good rain falls in the next week or two, many more farmers are expected to start baling failed crops or turning stock onto them.

In a special report published in The Land, contract harvester, Bruce Estens, of Deberi Harvesting, says large areas of southern Australia and the WA grain belt are very dry.

Without good rain by the end of September, the national wheat crop could plummet to below 10 million tonnes - less than Australia's domestic demand for grain.

[parsley]

Hard to watch crops that started out so well, go down the tube. Sorry to hear it.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Mallee,

I too am sorry to hear things are going the wrong way. Food for people is the life blood of civilization, and the ability to distibute it in a fair manner is key to peace on planet earth.

So many people have taken grain growers for granted for so long... if a fair price and food security leadership had been important... we would have had plenty of stocks for the seven years of low production!

But semi-conductors are more important to this world than people! We have much to learn!

[agstar77]

Could you enlighten us to a possible glyphosate shortage in Australia?

[malleefarmer]

Ive not heard of any glypho shortage have heard the first time for many years there is going to be a price increase
It is currently $4.50 a litre thats aust dollars