"It's extraordinary the resilience that has now been built into the system." #Shorts #GRDC

The farming system in the last 20 to 25 years. It's extraordinary the resilience that's now being built into the system. So when we have a really bad, and particularly a dry year, what used to be low rainfall, very high risk country is now becoming moderately resilient. And so a bad year they might be at a tonne to the hectare, whereas in a bad year previously they'd be a zero to the hectare. So I think that's probably the thing that I'd say is plenty of challenges in all these systems, but the resilience in the system now rewards most players. Like there's people farming far west of us where reliability is now a lot more sure. And if I look at places in Western Australia, particularly in parts of South Australia or parts of the Mallee, it's extraordinarily the resilience that's now being built into the system and it's particularly around, you know, husbandry, agronomy and particularly the soils work that's going on across, you know, now probably 15 to 20 years.