Australian Wheat Regions
Reports showing the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) Prices can be found on a daily basis for each wheat growing region below. Just click on the link for each region.
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Neutral conditions have now become established in the Pacific and most models, including DAFWA's ESS, are indicating these condition should persist through spring.

Of major concern for rainfall outlooks has been the very h igh barometric pressure recorded to the south and west of Australia over the last 6 weeks. Also, a persistent weal sea surface temperature (SST) gradient to the north-west of Australia appears to be reducing moisture inflow into cool season weather sysems e.g. cold front, cut-off lows.

The Australian government has selected five analogue years on the basis of the similarity of global and regional indicators. The ESS second, theird and fifth ranked analogues (2000, 1943, 1989) are combined with 1967 and 2007 which had a reduced SST gradient to the northwest of Australia. The median of these five analogues is indicative of below average rainfall across the southwest agricultural region of WA and parts of SE Australia, with wetter conditions indicated for Queesnland.

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September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008

The following charts indicate the Australian Rainfall Deciles (current vs.average). The green outlines represent the Australian wheat regions. The right represents the legend for these maps.

June 2008