Thursday, 07 June 2007

South Australian Grain Farmers to Plant Record Crop This Year After Rain

(Bloomberg) -- Grain farmers in South Australia, the
nation's third-largest wheat growing state, will sow a record
area to crops this year as drought conditions ease.

Farmers will plant crops including wheat, barley and canola
over an estimated 3.95 million hectares (9.76 million acres)
this season, Rural Solutions SA said today in a report on its
Web site. That compares with 3.7 million hectares last year.


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