00:00It was a season that surprised everyone.
00:05It's an exceptional result and probably one that at the start of the year no one really
00:09could have foreseen that it would bend it up this well.
00:13With final deliveries still trickling in, the total of all grains from across the state
00:18is expected to reach 27.2 million tonnes.
00:23Areas like Geraldton, despite a late start in June, eventually delivered 5 million tonnes
00:29in the bins.
00:30Those mild temperatures in this spring had a massive impact on those extra tonnes and
00:36one that you could not have foreseen earlier when we had such a late break in that region.
00:40Esperance cropped a new record producing more than 4 million tonnes and the Albany region
00:47brought in almost 5.5 million tonnes.
00:50Well timed rain through the growing season rewarded growers who had turned pasture country over
00:56to cropping.
00:57Amazing year, probably my second largest production year on record.
01:02Across the grain belt almost half a million extra hectares were sown.
01:07Sheep going out of our systems, more hectares going in, varieties are always improving,
01:12probably not huge amounts of frost around, a soft finish, a soft September.
01:18The good rains in July and August really set the season up.
01:22Not all areas fared well, with north central areas like Goodlands through to the north of
01:27Kalani and down to the west and east of Meriden missed out on vital rains.
01:33Now WA growers are aiming for a new record target.
01:37Could hit a 28, 30 million tonne crop pretty soon, so yeah, it's not out of reach I don't think.
01:43The record harvest expected to bring in more than $10 billion to the state's economy.
01:49The record harvest expected to bring in more than $10 billion to the state's economy.
01:54And I'll see you at the next one.
01:55I'll see you at the next one.
01:57I'll see you at the next one.
01:59I'll see you at the next one.
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