Australian wheat output projected to decline
After three consecutive years of record-setting wheat crops in Australia, production in marketing year 2023-24 is forecast to dip 25% from the previous year to what would still be the fourth largest total over the last 10 years, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network report from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture. “Favorable conditions around the time of winter grain planting across most production areas of Australia bodes well for the establishment and early…