WINTER crops in Northern New South Wales and Queensland are hanging in the balance after a year of patchy rain and heavy frosts.
Many growers say without a rain event in the next month there is a chance a significant portion of oats crops could fail. Grain crops are also an issue on the Darling Downs and NSW.
There was some rain that came through the North at the start of July, however, it did not make its way very far south and the mixed farming areas of Qld and NSW have only seen patchy rain.
Elders’ Killara Feedlot general manager Andrew Talbot said less than half the country…
