GRAIN
Grain Growers gambling their odds this seeding season
Grain growers are ploughing ahead with their seeding despite constraints around global fuel and fertiliser supply, gambling their odds on breaking even or making a profit this cropping season.
Mid West grain growers have been handed a mixed bag of conditions amid a lack of rainfall and global geopolitical uncertainty.
Wheatbelt growers around Toodyay and Wongan Hills are split on their seeding, with larger croppers seeding as usual and smaller farms pausing plans for fear they won’t be able to secure fertiliser and fuel supply needed to finish their crops.
Wongan Hills and Toodyay Elders agronomist Alana Hartley said pre-cyclone Narelle rainfall had turned out to be “a bit of a fizzle”, giving growers in the Toodyay area 30mm to 45mm.