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Grain production takes off
3 Dec 2004
Crop forecasts may be being reduced for the current season, but production of most crops, including of wheat and barley, are well up over the last two years since the worst point of the drought. The Bureau of Statistics estimated wheat production was 26.2 million tonnes in 2003/04, a 159 per cent rise over the previous year. The area planted to wheat rose 17 per cent to 13 million hectares. The biggest increase was in Victoria, followed by Western Australia and New South Wales. Barley production rose 166 per cent; canola production rose 94 per cent, while production of oats more than doubled.
The Age, 03/12/04
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