WHILE most growers are focusing on getting this year's crop off, Chris Martin, from Australian Seed and Grain in Moora, is already well ahead in setting up growers for next season.
When Farm Weekly visited last week, the sheds were already starting to fill with a wide range of canola varieties, as well as the new noodle variety Ninja, which was commercially released in August.
Chris, pictured with Heritage Seeds' forage barley variety Dictator 2, said the season had been very good for bulk up seed but there had been some losses due to frost.
"In the seed we are grading you can see the frost has affected it, so there has been some reasonable losses to try to get good seed for next year," he said.
"Losses are upwards of 15 per cent just to try and get rid of the frosted element of it."
Chris is expecting to see a big push in canola next year and while pulses would vary, cereal seed demand would remain steady.
"There will definitely be a big increase in canola - the price says we're going to grow a lot next year, so we'll see a lot of yellow around.
"Lupins could have an uplift as the price is pretty good and growers are thinking as they're not making a lot out of wheat that the lupins will set them up for the year after.
"Peas will remain about the same as they're hard to harvest.
"Chickpeas are really expensive and the seed is upwards of $1300 per tonne, so it's getting a bit too close to being prohibitive to buy and grow I think that's the warning sign that there won't be so many in 2017."
