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June 17, 2008 10:20am
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THE nation's commodity forecaster has expressed optimism about the winter grain crop.
"Although substantial areas have been dry sown, the recent rainfall across eastern states has provided the moisture to assist growers to complete intended cropping programs,'' Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Research Economics (ABARE) acting executive director Karen Schneider said.
The bureau says the area sown to winter crops is up nine per cent to 22.3m ha.
"Assuming an improvement in yields, winter crop production is forecast to be around 37 million tonnes in 2008/09, 15 million tonnes above the drought-affected harvest of the previous year,'' the bureau said.
Wheat sowing has risen by 13 per cent to a fresh record of 14m ha and the wheat harvest is predicted to be 23.7 million tonnes, more than 10 million tonnes up on last year's 13 million tonne harvest.
There is plenty more good news for the struggling sector with the bureau also predicting strong barley and canola harvests.
"Production of barley is forecast to increase to around 8 million tonnes and canola to around 1.7 million tonnes,'' the bureau said.
The summer crop prediction is also significantly higher.
"Total summer crop production in 2007-08 is estimated at 3.5 million tonnes, nearly 60 per cent above the 2006-07 drought-affected harvest.''
Article from: AAP
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THE nation's commodity forecaster has expressed optimism about the winter grain crop.
"Although substantial areas have been dry sown, the recent rainfall across eastern states has provided the moisture to assist growers to complete intended cropping programs,'' Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Research Economics (ABARE) acting executive director Karen Schneider said.
The bureau says the area sown to winter crops is up nine per cent to 22.3m ha.
"Assuming an improvement in yields, winter crop production is forecast to be around 37 million tonnes in 2008/09, 15 million tonnes above the drought-affected harvest of the previous year,'' the bureau said.
Wheat sowing has risen by 13 per cent to a fresh record of 14m ha and the wheat harvest is predicted to be 23.7 million tonnes, more than 10 million tonnes up on last year's 13 million tonne harvest.
There is plenty more good news for the struggling sector with the bureau also predicting strong barley and canola harvests.
"Production of barley is forecast to increase to around 8 million tonnes and canola to around 1.7 million tonnes,'' the bureau said.
The summer crop prediction is also significantly higher.
"Total summer crop production in 2007-08 is estimated at 3.5 million tonnes, nearly 60 per cent above the 2006-07 drought-affected harvest.''
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