Harvest in the Wimmera this year has varied in the extremes across and within the districts but growers are pleasantly surprised with around average yields in what has been a very dry growing season.
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00:00So Brett, how's your harvest been? Surprisingly well. We're about two-thirds of the way through.
00:05We've harvested wheat and barley at this point and I've got a weather delay now with the rain
00:12that's just been through but for the amount of rain to be picked up over the summer period
00:18and with only 149 millimetres of rain for the growing season, I'm very nicely surprised
00:26at our yields. We've probably been able to...
00:32We have finished our canola and the yields were just under two tonne
00:39of canola which is pretty good and the barley is about three and a half tonne
00:44average at the moment so I'm very happy. Ash, how's your harvest been?
00:48Yeah, so far so good. We're about 40% of the way through. We've had a good run so far
00:55considering the year we've had. Yields have been, yeah, exceptional. Quite varied though still,
01:02some frost damage, some soil types have struggled but overall with a 140 mil
01:09growing season rainfall our crops are probably a little bit above average and we're quite happy to
01:15hopefully get into the rest of harvest soon as we can dry out and get the headers rolling again.