Continuing dry start to the season

May 17 2019 - 9:00am
Frank Nield captured this great drone image during a break in the seeding at Hyden. He was one of many Farm Weekly readers to send in seeding 2019 photographs over the past week. For more photographs see the Farm Week Facebook page.
Frank Nield captured this great drone image during a break in the seeding at Hyden. He was one of many Farm Weekly readers to send in seeding 2019 photographs over the past week. For more photographs see the Farm Week Facebook page.

THE lack of sub-soil moisture and opening rains for the majority of the Western Australian grainbelt, combined with climate forecasts aligning for a lower than average rainfall this year, has resulted in growers making earlier than normal adjustments to their crop areas and seeding programs.

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