As 2024 draws to a close, many good yarns will be had over the Christmas table this year in what could be said to be the best cropping performance ever seen across the Coonamble district.Overall yields across all crops were exceptional, usually something will let us down, but cereals, oilseeds and pulses all had great outcomes.In wheat the downfall of good yields is that as yields increase, proteins will dilute unless nitrogen supply is maintained.With some back of the envelope calculations, a 4.0 tonne per hectare wheat crop at 10.5% protein would remove approximately . . .
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