The precious little bit of water that we carried over from last year is
being used on this wheat that will be next years seed. With zero water
allocation and water prices very high this will be all that we can water.
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The everyday of our family farm
Difficult times.
ReplyDeleteI recently heard a program about Australian wheat on RN. I was fascinated. The thing I found interesting was wheat produced on the eastern side of the country is for home consumption and that produced in the west is largely for noodles, two minute and Udon noodles. The Japanese are very particular, it seems, about the quality of the wheat for their noodles. Who knew all this? Not me? I'm sure you'll put me right, if I'm talking through my hat.
And the photo - there seems to be a lot of concentration happening right at this moment.
Alphie
You are correct Alphie. 80% of Western Australia's wheat harvest is exported, mostly to Asia, whilst 40% of crops grown in the eastern Australia are used for domestic consumption and animal feed. This year, because of the drought, we are actually importing wheat - the first time since 2007.
DeleteOh my! Wish we could send rain clouds your way!
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to all the farmers suffering from lack of rain. There seems to be no end in sight.
ReplyDeleteAnd here in the Hebrides we have all the water anyone could want this summer (and more) and virtually no agriculture any more.
ReplyDeleteI really, really hope this drought breaks and some rain falls. Soon.
ReplyDeleteThis drought is horrible
ReplyDeleteIt's not easy--- I hope you have a properly wet spring!
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