This year’s harvest is underway, with faba bean, barley, canola and wheat being stripped in the north of the State and in the western areas of the central and southern cropping zones with the latest NSW Grains Report showing prospects for this year’s harvest continuing to spiral downwards.
“Wheat yield is now forecast to drop to less than 4.5 million tonnes with reductions for barley, oats, triticale, cereal rye and canola, resulting in an overall decrease of 18 per cent on the mid-September estimate to less than 6.6 million tonnes,” said Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald.
Industry & Investment NSW cereals specialist, Frank McRae, said an estimated 274,000 tonnes harvest of canola is now forecast, following crop failures and frost damage in some areas.
“The reduced forecasts since the September Grains Report are the result of a dry spring and damage from frost in early October,” said Mr McRae.
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