Warming whacks wheat yield

Mike Foley
March 16 2017 - 2:00pm
Negative impacts to yields from climate change has cancelled out wheat growers' productivity growth, according to a CSIRO study co-authored by scientists Zvi Hochman, David Gobbett and Heidi Horan.
Negative impacts to yields from climate change has cancelled out wheat growers' productivity growth, according to a CSIRO study co-authored by scientists Zvi Hochman, David Gobbett and Heidi Horan.

CLIMATE change has reduced potential yields across Australia’s wheat growing regions by 47 kilograms a year in the last quarter century, according to the latest CSIRO research.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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