Dry start fails to quell KI cropper optimism

Alisha Fogden
May 18 2017 - 7:30am
UNDER WAY: Kangaroo Island croppers Jenny and Will Stanton (pictured centre with niece Addison Stanton, 2, and daughter Annabelle, 2), Stokes Bay and Parndana, started seeding on April 23, with early-sown wheat and canola already out of the ground. They had 8mm of rain on Tuesday.
UNDER WAY: Kangaroo Island croppers Jenny and Will Stanton (pictured centre with niece Addison Stanton, 2, and daughter Annabelle, 2), Stokes Bay and Parndana, started seeding on April 23, with early-sown wheat and canola already out of the ground. They had 8mm of rain on Tuesday.

THERE is plenty of optimism about for the 2017 cropping season on Kangaroo Island, with dry-sown crops boosted by 5 millimetres to 10mm of rain earlier this week.

Alisha Fogden

Alisha Fogden

senior journalist, cropping editor at Stock Journal

Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.

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