The crop on the Liverpool Plains will be the smallest for many years. The forecast is for just a few hundred thousand tonnes. No dryland cotton went in, and much less sorghum than normal.
Not much rain way out west, but they don't grow summer crops anyway. The rain where it fell will be great for the winter crop potential.
Lots of crops on the plains are too thin to yield well. Not many got a decent planting rain, it was all patchy storm stuff. Some blokes planted dry. Of that, some got a strike, and some got enough to germinate the seed but not enough to get it established, so some of those crops died.
The rain was fantastic. I got 140 mills last week and 30 mills more on the weekend. I got a good strike on my crop thanks to some lucky storms, but it had it's tongue hanging out before it rained, mainly from the hot days. It looks fantastic now and has a full soil profile and should yield better than average.
The whole district is green and lush now. Hard to believe how dry it all was just a few weeks ago.
