Parkes farmers expand crop types to match variable rainfall

By Sandra Godwin
November 25 2021 - 12:00pm
Mark and Katrina Swift with last season's sorghum crop at Nelungaloo.
Mark and Katrina Swift with last season's sorghum crop at Nelungaloo.

It pays to be flexible when you're farming in the central west where rainfall in the past dozen years has amounted to as little as 230mm or as much as 1087mm, and peak rainfall can come at any time of the year.

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