Griffith canola links up with 2016 moisture to yield 1.4 tonnes despite low rainfall

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November 7 2019 - 7:25am
Barry Haskins (in green) with Chris Morshead, with whom he share farms, and one of his agronomists, Albert Gorman, in the canola crop that averaged 1.4 tonnes a hectare.
Barry Haskins (in green) with Chris Morshead, with whom he share farms, and one of his agronomists, Albert Gorman, in the canola crop that averaged 1.4 tonnes a hectare.

Griffith farmer and agronomist, Barry Haskins, has managed to grow a dryland canola crop which yielded from one to 1.4 tonnes a hectare, with only 140 millimetres of rain.

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Olivia Calver

Journalist

Journalist for The Land

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