00:02Anxious times for WA's grain growers.
00:05It's very scary for us at the moment.
00:07Premier Roger Cook hearing their concerns first hand.
00:10You need to get that seed in the ground, right?
00:12It's actually the critical period.
00:13The Premier assuring farmers supplies from the national stockpile released last week
00:19will soon be filling empty tanks in the country.
00:22Well, we've got no clarity, but we're all in the dark.
00:25The lack of certainty is worrying businesses in the bush.
00:30There's a lot of anguish in customers, not angry, but they're getting concerned.
00:36And that sort of, you know, they don't need any of that this time of the year.
00:40Ronbeck normally delivers millions of litres of diesel across the wheat belt in time for
00:46seeding.
00:47It's about half empty.
00:48With more than 200 of his customers waiting for sufficient supplies to begin weeks of planting.
00:54We need to allocate a bit more of this fuel that's coming in to the agricultural industry
01:00that's supplying food.
01:03In small towns, rationing fuel has been going on for a week, with many posting signs of limits
01:10per customer.
01:12We've put a limit on it to make sure everybody gets fuel.
01:16If we hadn't put the limit on it, we would have run out probably yesterday.
01:19On guard to deter any fuel theft.
01:23I'm here today because for $200 you can buy a Milwaukee pump and they can empty our tanks
01:29in 20 minutes.
01:31We're just not really used to things just being completely unavailable and no idea and
01:38no real information about what's really going to happen.
01:41With weather and markets always on their minds, now fuel to add to the challenges of farming.
01:49Everyone has seen.
01:50The plan is actually to pay the most fat.
01:50We're just going to keep doing some of these things in the field.
01:50We're excited to build that.
01:50We're going to prep the nest and save a month.
01:50We're going to take clean and review.
01:50I'm going to prosecute these things in US.
01:50And then we're going to protect the liegt side of the target.
01:51Alright.
01:51I'm going to save a long time on the field.
01:51And we're going to protect the town.
01:51So let's create a long time on the field.
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