Farmers run the risk on most expensive wheat crop in history
September 30 marks the end of the agricultural year with farmers sweating on the harvest of the most expensive crop they have ever grown and worried by warnings of softer commodity prices.
Australian farmers are sweating on by far the most expensive grain crop they have ever nursed through to harvest and cursing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
With the financial year for most big agribusiness stocks ended on September 30. farmers are grappling with huge price increases for fertiliser, chemicals, fuel and other key inputs, and much of the pain stems from Mr Putin’s war on Ukraine.
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