Rain plain
It’s little secret that farming in Australia is a tough gig at the best of times, given its largely dry and harsh environment.
That’s why the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BoM) declaration on November 23 that a La Niña weather system had developed in the tropical Pacific Ocean caused quite a stir amongst the agricultural industry.
The system is expected to persist in the southern hemisphere until late in the summer and may even stick around until early Autumn, and with it, an above average rainfall is now expected across the eastern seaboard states.
Professor Graeme Hammer – a professor in crop science at the University of Queensland’s
