Grain recovery the biggest in nearly 40 years

Gregor Heard
October 21 2020 - 2:00pm
Ron Storey, Storey Marketing Services, believes the last year on year increase in crop production of this magnitude was way back in the early 1980s.
Ron Storey, Storey Marketing Services, believes the last year on year increase in crop production of this magnitude was way back in the early 1980s.

The big recovery in Australian grain production is welcome news for all within the industry, but it has puzzled historians within the sector who have struggled to come up with a similar phenomenon of big rises in tonnages in recent memory.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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