However, Geraldton Elders agronomist Peter Elliott-Lockhart said farmers needed to take these forecasts with a pinch of salt, as he didn’t believe any forecasting system gave an accurate idea of what was to come.He would like to see more WA investment by the bureau, similar to that from Queensland’s bureau which had spent “lots of time and money in the late 90s and early 2000s” developing its forecasting ability.
