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Australia forecasts wheat output down 10 per cent on dry conditions

Barley, canola also hit

By Reuters June 2, 2025

Australia's wheat production is projected to drop 10 per cent this year to 30.6 million tonnes, with barley and canola output also expected to fall due to dry conditions across several cropping regions, the agriculture ministry, ABARES, said.

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Weak Chinese demand leaves Australia with too much wheat

By Naveen Thukral, Peter Hobson, Reuters May 27, 2025

Australian wheat inventories will likely be much higher than last year at the end of the season, pressuring prices, because of a drop in Chinese imports and competition from ample supplies out of rival exporter Russia, analysts and traders said.

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Australian authorities airdrop supplies to farmers stranded by flood crisis

By Reuters May 26, 2025

Helicopters were being used on Sunday to drop animal feed to farmers in Australia's New South Wales state stranded by floods that have killed five and isolated tens of thousands in the country's southeast.

A farmer in China piles wheat. Photo: Reuters/File

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China buys Canadian, Australian wheat as heat hits crop, traders say

By Gus Trompiz, Michael Hogan, Peter Hobson, Reuters May 9, 2025

Chinese buyers bought between 400,000 and 500,000 metric tons of wheat from Australia and Canada in recent weeks, traders said, as heat threatens to damage crops in China's agricultural heartlands.

The USDA attache in Australia is calling for a smaller wheat crop in 2025/26.

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Smaller Australian wheat crop in 2025/26

Dry conditions cut into production says USDA attaché

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 29, 2025

Australian wheat production has been projected to drop in 2025/26 by 3.11 million tonnes, according to the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Canberra. The attaché projected the country’s wheat output at 31 million tonnes for the coming marketing year.

Charles de Pellette, Operations Director of the restaurant, poses for a picture next to U.S. beef and pork in a smokehouse, at Home Plate BBQ, an American-style restaurant, in Beijing, China April 17, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Tiffany Le

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US beef off the menu as the trade war hits Beijing’s American-style restaurants

US beef exports to China worth $125 million a month at risk

By Ella Cao, Josh Arslan April 21, 2025

Beijing | Reuters – At Home Plate BBQ, an American-style restaurant in Beijing, staff are reprinting menus. The U.S.-China trade war means American beef – once the star ingredient – will soon be off the table. Home Plate’s beef, previously sourced entirely from the U.S., is increasingly Australian. The restaurant uses about 7 to 8 […] Read more

“But we lost a lot of acres… which suggests to me that some organic guys have let some of their organics land go. And they are growing canola on the side,” says Laura Telford. Photo: Greg Berg

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Global rapeseed/canola production dips in April report

USDA lowers output for EU, India

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 10, 2025

World production of rapeseed/canola for 2024/25 was trimmed by almost 0.53 per cent on April 10, when the United States Department of Agriculture released its World Agricultural Production report.

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Western Australia’s wheat harvest exceeds forecast by 1.6 million tons, GIWA says

The 2024 grain growing season ended with the third-largest tonnage on record

By Reuters February 14, 2025

The Grain Industry Association of Western Australia (GIWA) said on Friday that the state's recent harvest yielded approximately 1.6 million metric tons more wheat than its December forecast.

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Australia’s canola improves but still lower than 2023/24

Bumps up wheat estimate, trims barley outlook

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 2, 2024

Of Australia's three largest winter crops for 2024/25, canola production was projected to be down from the previous year. Meanwhile, estimates for wheat and barley output were forecast to be higher than a year ago.

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Wheat yields in Western Australia are better than expected, industry body says

By Peter Hobson, Reuters November 22, 2024

Western Australia should produce 420,000 tonnes more wheat this year than was projected a month ago, an industry group said Friday, adding to expectations that Australia's national crop will be larger than pre-harvest estimates.

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Australia forecasts wheat output down 10 per cent on dry conditions

Weak Chinese demand leaves Australia with too much wheat

Australian authorities airdrop supplies to farmers stranded by flood crisis

China buys Canadian, Australian wheat as heat hits crop, traders say

Smaller Australian wheat crop in 2025/26

US beef off the menu as the trade war hits Beijing’s American-style restaurants

Global rapeseed/canola production dips in April report

Western Australia’s wheat harvest exceeds forecast by 1.6 million tons, GIWA says

Australia’s canola improves but still lower than 2023/24

Wheat yields in Western Australia are better than expected, industry body says

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