Australian Croppers Warn Winter Harvest Is Not Looking Great

Grain producer Barry Large knew it wasn’t going to be a record harvest but he wasn’t anticipating yields this low. “It’s not looking great, our yield will be down 50 percent plus,” Mr. Large said of his wheat and barley crops. Export hay is looking even worse.   The West Australian (WA) cropper, who also chairs Grain Producers Australia, said it was similar in other parts of his state, which is the nation’s biggest producer of winter crops. “I would suggest the state’s going to be 50 percent down on what we produced last year,” Mr. Large said. “We were pretty close to 25 million tonne last year—anything over 12 million tonne this year would be a good result.”...