“Earlier in the season we saw ABARES (the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences) saying they did not expect a big plant due to concerns about the El Nino-induced dry, but I’d question the assumption now, it seems quite a bit of crop did go in later in the planting window.”
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