One-third wheat is livestock feed

摘要

Continuing rains through early December ruined a very promising set of winter wheat crops. When the harvest could restart, was a critical factor for grain quality. If growers could get back into their wheat crops by December 15, and there were no further rain interruptions, the amount of weather-damaged wheat would likely be contained to nine million tonnes. This is big number, out of the 25 million tonnes of wheat grown.This season represents the highest tonnage of weather-damaged wheat ever produced in Australia. It exceeds the weather damaged tonnages of the wet wheat harvest year of 1983. In that year, Queensland and WA performed relatively better than this current harvest and partially covered for the other states. Out of 20.4 million tonnes 5.8 million tonnes were weather-damaged. At that time, the Australian Wheat Board operated a single desk for export, and it was some four years later, that the last of the weather damaged feed wheat was sold to Mexico.