Lucerne prices expected to lift as stocks dwindle

By Catherine Miller
April 16 2020 - 6:00pm
PROMISING YIELDS: Western Flat lucerne seed grower Mark Pridham is hopeful yields in his late crops will be up on 2019, with this crop of Siriver going about 1.1 tonnes a hectare to 1.2t/ha off the header.
PROMISING YIELDS: Western Flat lucerne seed grower Mark Pridham is hopeful yields in his late crops will be up on 2019, with this crop of Siriver going about 1.1 tonnes a hectare to 1.2t/ha off the header.

THE 2020 lucerne seed harvest is expected to be the smallest in the past decade, with the area under production about half the long-term average and yields well off last year's records.

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