Dry cuts ABARES crop forecast to 36m tonnes

Andrew Marshall
Updated September 12 2017 - 9:00am, first published 5:30am
This year’s weather-stressed national grain crop will be almost 40 per cent smaller in size than the record 2016-17 harvest.
This year’s weather-stressed national grain crop will be almost 40 per cent smaller in size than the record 2016-17 harvest.

The national commodities forecaster has slashed another nine per cent from from its expectations of this year’s winter grain crop harvest as eastern Australia’s dry winter-spring season turns nastier.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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