Sporadic rain helps Day's crops thrive

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November 8 2019 - 5:00am
Planet barley, the first crop to be stripped on Dayfarms, Oaklands, in the Riverina. Shannon Day shows a sample of the 2.5 to 3 tonne yield with his father, Peter, in front of three of four headers working right up to last weekend's rain.
Planet barley, the first crop to be stripped on Dayfarms, Oaklands, in the Riverina. Shannon Day shows a sample of the 2.5 to 3 tonne yield with his father, Peter, in front of three of four headers working right up to last weekend's rain.

SPORADIC rain on early-sown wheat, barley and canola, has enabled a positive finish to a very patchy growing season for the Day family's large broadacre cropping enterprise at Oaklands in the Riverina.

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Mark Griggs

Journalist 0- Central West NSW

Central West and Western editorial reporter living at Wellington and based out of The Land, Dubbo office.

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