Australia: Rain mixed blessing as harvest accelerates

consumers are lifting their bids a few dollars to cover their nearby needs ahead of what is shaping up as a run on chickpea selling to fill vessels booked for November and December. Table 1: Indicative prices in Australian dollars per tonne. Rain over southern and Central Queensland has been ideal for sorghum already in the ground, and is expected to prompt another round of planting. It has, however, interrupted harvesting, although most registrations, if any, were single digit. Qld locations that received substantial rain in the week to 9am today included: Dalby 13mm; Emerald 22mm; Felton 43mm; Jondaryan 28mm; Macalister 10mm; Miles 16mm; St George 13mm, and Springsure 34mm. With much of Qld’s barley delivered, warehoused or stored on farm, the harvest spotlight is moving to chickpeas and wheat. Sunrise Commodities managing director Scott Merson said consumers were milling around for wheat and barley. “Prompt barley is hard to move, but there’s plenty of demand for ...