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South Australia is on track for an “average at best” grain harvest this year, with bumper winter rains bookended by drought-like conditions in autumn and a dry start to spring.
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Australia’s Trade Minister says it’s “deeply frustrating” that China refuses to discuss its “unacceptable” targeting of Australian exports, with lamb joining wine, beef, coal, barley and timber on the unofficial hit list and wheat and cotton producers bracing as the trade dispute worsens.
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South Australian lobsters are among those that have been stranded on the tarmac in China, sparking concerns the lucrative shellfish could be the next target of Chinese trade sanctions.
Australian cotton growers could be the latest victims of increasingly bitter trade tensions with China which have seen crippling tariffs placed on Australian barley exports, with wine also in the firing line.
China has suspended imports from an Australian barley cooperative after claiming it had found pests in the shipments, weeks after slapping Australian barley imports with an 80 per cent tariff amid growing trade and diplomatic tensions.
Three months after imposing an 80 per cent tariff on Australian barley imports, China has turned to Argentina for supplies of the grain used for livestock feed and beer.
