Harvest hindered but not hit

Alisha Fogden
January 17 2017 - 7:30am
STELLAR SPRING: Mid North/EP cropper Dave Boulton says the 2016-17 season has been the best he's experienced, with yields almost doubling the previous season.
STELLAR SPRING: Mid North/EP cropper Dave Boulton says the 2016-17 season has been the best he's experienced, with yields almost doubling the previous season.

POOR canola yields in dry springs and high input costs encouraged Mid North farmer Dave Boulton to grow a different break crop – vetch. 

Alisha Fogden

Alisha Fogden

senior journalist, cropping editor at Stock Journal

Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.

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