Rabo flags wheat crop at just 18m tonnes

Gregor Heard
June 6 2019 - 7:00pm
Cheryl Kalisch Gordon, Rabobank senior grains and oilseeds analyst, is predicting another below average year for Australian winter crop production.
Cheryl Kalisch Gordon, Rabobank senior grains and oilseeds analyst, is predicting another below average year for Australian winter crop production.

IN SPITE of a promising start to the winter cropping season in south-eastern Australia, the nation as a whole is looking down the barrel of a third consecutive below average year in terms of production.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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