Australia 's drought is producing what may 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 Australian crop is forecast to fall 23 % from last year to 1 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 . In the week of 31 March , the bulk handler received 1,000 mt of grains in NSW , down from 200,000 mt in 2017 .
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. In the week of 29 October, the bulk handler received 1,000 mt of grains in NSW, down from 200,000 mt in 2017.