00:00it's not lost on us the you know the very big privilege that we have in the position that we're
00:03in um you know when you compare grdc compared to you know rather rdcs across the system so
00:10um and it's not also not lost on us i mean the deep responsibility comes with
00:14making sure we continue to as we've done for the last 30 years you know get the uh every dollar
00:19invested um yeah that is focused on you know putting our money in growers pockets um you know
00:24with you know there's always you know plenty of people knocking at our door you know they've got
00:28project ideas but their ideas a lot of them that have been around for a while you know they want
00:33to re-prosecute them a lot of them we've said no but we're really looking to continue to identify
00:38those which are going to you know keep you know stepping us forward in terms of you know trying to
00:42improve grow profitability so so that's been the critical thing that we've been doing certainly
00:46over this last uh you know three or four years is to continue to maintain that absolute discipline
00:50of making um you know every dollar count um that we invest on behalf of growers and that's
00:55you know driven by our grower um based um you know panel system um which is quite unique
01:00how do you make the judgment calls regarding perhaps stuff that's potentially more specific to
01:05um the respective zones you know summer cropping it's an obvious one and you know probably a
01:11great benefit to northern new south wales and coins there but maybe not so so that western
01:15australians or victorians yeah so i think first thing to talk about is just about the split of where the
01:20the levees come from and roughly over time they're about a third a third a third
01:23and we often see you know that western australia will say well we're the biggest state well yes
01:27you're the biggest state but uh when you actually talk about regions so with the western region is
01:31about is about eight or nine million hectares the southern region which comprises um south
01:37australia and victoria is about eight nine million hectares and as is the north you know northern
01:40new south wales and queensland so you've actually got to compare apples with apples so the first
01:44thing we do is we actually point to regions are roughly equal to the same size they roughly um
01:49you know sort of contribute about the same amount the north is with the summer crop is you know
01:53edges you know in in not last year but in most years it edges a little bit ahead of um
01:58uh the
01:59west but by and large it's pretty much even across the board what was previously regarded as a bumper
02:03crop sort of becoming the new normal you know but we work on you know working on say a 60
02:08million
02:08becoming more often not that obviously has implications for your levies and how do you sort of see yourself
02:14spending that responsibly over time um you know this year it may well we may see a dip in production
02:20based on what we're seeing in the products of the present but by and large we're growing a lot more
02:25grain a lot more often yeah yeah no we we certainly are and it's isn't a great testament to you
02:31know
02:31farmers and how they're changing and adapting their farming systems and yeah again you look at you look
02:35at the spread of the diversity of crops which is helping to drive that as well you look at the
02:39canola area which has been growing the break crop uh you know effect and impact that that provides
02:43um yeah the area planted the wheat you know it's obviously down you know it was once upon a time
02:47now if you plan years ago about 60 percent now it's you know 40 percent so you've got you know
02:51more canola pulses you know barley uh oats and other crops you know where farmers are you know trying to
02:56sort of look at you know placing the most profitable option for them in their farming system so yeah look
03:01i
03:01mean yeah and and all the work that people have been in around zero till you know control traffic farming
03:05and and uh yeah basically keeping your weeds out of your crops in summer um you know and storing retaining
03:10moisture
03:13superficial information so that we want to see the
03:13If i do leave the different environmental problems
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