The excellent climatic conditions in Nsw have made front page of...

The excellent climatic conditions in Nsw have made front page of 'The Australian' on Monday 21 September 2020. Here's part of the article:

Farmers across large swaths of the country are set for their best harvest in three years, with heavy rainfall across NSW creating a bumper crop and dragging the state out of prolonged drought.

Just 3 per cent of NSW remains in drought, a significant reversal from the same time last year when 97.2 per cent of the state was in some way affected by drought, official figures show.

That rebound has pushed Australia’s grain production to its highest level since 2017, with 60 per cent of that increase from NSW, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics found.

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For Liverpool Plains farmer John Hamparsum, the canola crop this year has been a welcome sight after three years of intense drought and poor harvests. “It’s raining money at the moment,” Mr Hamparsum, who also grows wheat, said on Sunday.

“We went through the drought when we had no proper rain.

'...In Queensland, it’s a different story: more than 67 per cent of the state is in drought, from the NSW border to Boulia Shire in the west and the Whitsundays in the east.

Farmers in both Queensland and NSW could have more good news with the likely development of a La Nina, last strongly felt in 2010-12, bringing more wet weather over summer.