Harvest photos: take a look at some photos from the past few years
Ben Ledingham, Merinda Farms, Moree and McGregor Gourlay, Agronomist, Dan Sweeney, Croppa Creek checking the last of the Gregory variety wheat being harvested before moving onto chickpeas. Wheat yielding 2.5mt 1/11/17
Ben Ledingham, Merinda Farms, Moree and McGregor Gourlay, Agronomist, Dan Sweeney, Croppa Creek checking the last of the Gregory variety wheat being harvested before moving onto chickpeas. Wheat yielding 2.5mt 1/11/17
Loch Melbourne, Mount Pleasant Farming, ""Mount Pleasant"", Narrabri with his full time employee, Murray Scott harvesting spitfire variety wheat sown 5th June with another 300-400 acres wheat to strip before starting on chickpeas 2/11/17
Ian Langridge, Langridge Harvesting, Goolgowi stripping lancer wheat yielding 4.5mt/ha north of Goondiwindi 15/11/16
Hay Baling Contractor, Keith Sayers, Dubbo and Operator, Tony Evans checking canola being cut for hay with a 31" Krone butterfly mower conditioner for the Watt family at Peak Hill 4/10/17
Zoe McMahon, Canberra helping her father, Phil Sykes, "Pelican Sheep Station" Goulburn harvesting blackbutt variety oats yielding over 3mt/ha 20/12/16
Stripping field peas near Hillston
David Goodwin, CD & RD Contract Harvesting, "Clearview", Bingara stripping barley at Andrew Crowe's property near Garah 15/11/16
Declan Honner, "Mt Pleasant", Junee checking stingray variety canola currently being harvested 29/11/17
Declan Honner, "Mt Pleasant", Junee checking stingray variety canola currently being harvested 29/11/17
MH Premium Farms (MHPF), Manager, Stewart Hughes, "Bellevue", Mallawa with harvest underway checking Lancer variety wheat yielding 8.75mt/ha, 13% protein, planted into country initially prepared for cotton 16/11/16
Hassad Australia, Gindarra Aggregation, Canowindra, (right) Manager, Rob Atkinson and Assistant Manager, Huw Coleman both sporting Movember beards checking wheat being stripped 25/11/15
Canola being harvested north of Narrabri
Harvesting rice in the Griffith area
Harvesting north of Wagga. Photo: Stephen Burns, Nov 2017
Tim White, "Tarlee", Edgeroi checking Y90 Pioneer clearfields canola being harvested 2/11/17
Tim White, "Tarlee", Edgeroi checking Y90 Pioneer clearfields canola being harvested 2/11/17
Stephen Boyle, "Krubi", Wee Waa harvesting barley which is yielding 5mt/ha 4/11/16
(centre) Chris Gribble, Gribble Farming, "Ropa", Yenda, (Chris' brother) Rod Gribble, R&C Gribble Harvesting, Yenda and backpacker, Christian Heitzer, Bavaria checking Reiziq variety rice sown last week of October, currently being stripped yielding approx 5mt/ac. This is the 87th rice crop his family has grown 4/4/17
Simon Marheine, Sparrows Creek Contracting, "Sparrows Creek", Willow Tree baling sorghum stubble at Breeza Station, Breeza 24/8/18
Harvesting oats near Goulburn
Harvesting wheat near Narrabri
Contractor Ted Wythes, Dundee Contracting, Eugowra harvesting wahoo variety canola for the Bruem family in the Forbes district 11/11/15
Kizzie Lockhart, "Singapore", Moree working in the sample stand at Dura silos testing gairdner variety Barley, Nov 2016
Stripping twilight variety field peas is underway on Aaron Hutchison’s Hillston property “Ronavis” 28/10/14
Harvesting rice in the Griffith area
The headers have moved through a lot faster than normal in some areas of the state, especially the north, but there are still some good paddocks to come off as harvest moves further south.
Some of the better crops (relative for the year we’ve had) are being reported in parts of the Central West and South West Slopes, including in areas like Cowra, Harden and Wallendbeen.
Given crop forecasts are significantly down overall, we want to celebrate those crops that have made it to harvest, despite the odds.
Given we’ve had lower rainfall across the eastern states (with the exception of parts of Victoria) than 2006/07, it is a credit to growers’ ability to produce a crop at all, and is thanks to their advances in water use efficiency.
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We’ve even heard of one farm in southern Queensland which yielded three tonnes a hectare of barley from just 45 millimtres of in-crop rain. This is desert conditions – but due to good management the crop was able to be sown into a good moisture profile.
Our photographer, Rachael Webb, has put together this gallery of harvest shots from the past couple years harvests that she snapped while driving through the state.
