Winter crop down but still above last year

Gregor Heard
Updated September 10 2019 - 10:37pm, first published 5:00pm
Crops in parts of Victoria are in excellent condition, but they are very much the exception rather than the rule.
Crops in parts of Victoria are in excellent condition, but they are very much the exception rather than the rule.

THE AUSTRALIAN Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is still predicting this year's national winter crop will be substantially larger than last year's harvest in spite of the ongoing drought in eastern Australia and a bleak spring outlook from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).

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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