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Jared Greenville

Climate is the key if farmers are to keep breaking records

Australian farm exports are at an all-time high. But carbon and land use challenges must be met if success is to continue into the future.

For the past three years Australian agriculture has been riding a high of good seasonal conditions and high international prices. Records have been broken; from the gross value of production, to exports, to the size of the Australia’s winter crop. But as seasonal conditions are expected to see a drying across the landscape, the sector is going to have to be open to the challenges that lay ahead.

Australian crop production is expected to remain strong in 2023-24, reaching $46 billion. Bloomberg

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Jared Greenville is executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.

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