Australia's drought is producing what could be the one of the worst grain harvests in eastern Australia, and may lead to the country importing whole grain for the first time in over a decade. Conditions are so bad that the winter crop is forecast to fall 23% from last year to 30 million metric tonnes (mt), according to Rabobank, and most of GrainCorp's silos in Queensland and NSW have closed as farmers keep grains on their farms. and we know there's grain in the system in some respects, but The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has warned there will likely be more than 100 days with temperatures above 30C this year, which would make it the hottest ever recorded across Australia.
Australia's drought is producing what could be the one of the worst grain harvests in eastern Australia, and may lead to the country importing whole grain for the first time in over a decade. Conditions are so bad that the winter crop is forecast to fall 23% from last year to 30 million metric tonnes (mt), according to Rabobank, and most of GrainCorp's silos in Queensland and NSW have closed as farmers keep grains on their farms. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has warned there will likely be more than 100 days with temperatures above 30C this year, which would make it the hottest ever recorded across Australia.