NQ farm confidence still muted

Updated September 22 2015 - 1:02pm, first published March 23 2015 - 4:00am
Half of the respondents who expected conditions to improve over the coming year cited seasonal conditions as cause for their optimism, while the season was also the reason 36 per cent of those with a negative outlook expected conditions to worsen.
Half of the respondents who expected conditions to improve over the coming year cited seasonal conditions as cause for their optimism, while the season was also the reason 36 per cent of those with a negative outlook expected conditions to worsen.

LACK of good monsoonal rain has kept a lid on the region’s farmer confidence this quarter, with large parts of north-western Queensland entering a third consecutive year of drought.

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