00:00We work all year for harvest so it doesn't get much better really.
00:16It's the best time of the year.
00:18I'd say better than Christmas.
00:23It's been what I consider a textbook season.
00:26This will be one of the biggest crops.
00:29Biggest winter crop.
00:32From the rich black soil of northern New South Wales,
00:36freshly harvested winter grain is pouring into Moree.
00:42It's a town with a population of 7,000 and seven receival sites.
00:49Everyone's really excited to have a decent harvest after the last few
00:54challenging years so this year's really come through the gates well.
01:00At CHS Broadbent the 2024 harvest is creating a logistical challenge
01:06for all the right reasons for grain merchant Jamie Fulton-Kennedy.
01:11The sheer volume that's coming through the sites at the moment is pretty insane.
01:15We've got a hell of a lot of grain in the area so it's good to see
01:18everyone up and at it and the town going as well as it is.
01:22Over the last few weeks which has been the gut slot of harvest and we're still going pretty hard,
01:28there would have been tens of thousands of tons come through Moree each day and
01:32don't want to think how many trucks but it'd be up near thousands.
01:34And what's the gut slot?
01:36The gut slot is when everyone is harvesting at the same time
01:40so the biggest part of harvest when everyone is really getting into it.
01:46The peak of harvest in the north has just passed but the grain keeps coming.
01:51It's been 40 degrees today and yet the trucks just keep rolling in with this site set to go
01:56through the night helping the region to harvest one of its largest crops yet.
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