Hay production favoured over leaving crops for grain due to dry spring

Gregor Heard
September 19 2018 - 12:00pm
Northern Victorian farmer Russell Hocking is going to cut crops for hay this year after well below average growing season rainfall.
Northern Victorian farmer Russell Hocking is going to cut crops for hay this year after well below average growing season rainfall.

GRAIN industry forecasters are factoring in a late swell of abandoned hectares in Victoria, South Australia and southern NSW when making their grain production estimates as farmers make the decision to cut ailing crops for hay en masse.

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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