IN SPITE of the high profile woes in Australian cropping this season there are still pockets expecting average to above average yields.
Victoria’s Wimmera is one region where farmers are hoping for a kind end to the spring, with concerns surrounding heat stress and frost the major worries.
Barring that, farmers are quietly optimistic of good yields.
It is a marked turnaround to 2014-15, where in spite of average national production, north-west Victoria was hit by a catastrophic run of back-to-back droughts that received little attention on the national scale due to the availability of grain from other regions.
Here, Fairfax Agricultural Media has captured some of the crops in the Wimmera in full spring bloom.