Viterra Assessing Rain Effect on South Australia Crop

Damage from heavy rainfall this week on crops in South Australia, the country’s second-largest wheat producing state, is being assessed, said Viterra Inc.’s South East Asia President Rob Gordon.

“It will have caused some damage but it’s way too early to make an estimate of what that might be,” Gordon said in an interview at a grains industry forum in Perth. The severe weather which passed through the state in the past 24 to 48 hours didn’t represent the same risk to crops as the continuing heavy rainfall in New South Wales and Queensland, he said.