Southern Australian Wheat Farmers Struggle Selling Poor Wheat Crop

Southern Australian Wheat farmers, particularly those in the Mallee areas are having a poor wheat harvest. Not only are yields way down they are now struggling with marketing their wheat crop.

Lameroo farmer Fred Maynard says with the deregulation of the wheat market, selling this year’s crop is even more of a challenge.

“We’re lost actually, we don’t know where to sell, what to do, anything,” he said.

“It’s just haywire, it’s terrible actually, there’s that many buyers out there, we don’t know who to sell to, they’re not posting price anywhere, it’s very hard to work out what to do.”

I remind readers we warned this would be the problem for farmers when the Wheat market was deregulated.

John Williamson reminds us what it is like living in the Mallee Country.

Mallee Boy

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