Southern Riverina Irrigators Updates

A dry start

The season has opened with a zero percent general security allocation.

While this itself is not unusual, it comes on the back of six months of below average inflows, 50% allocation last year and in the face of forecast below average rainfall for the next three months.

Given that NSW and parts of Queensland are currently in crippling drought, our region is in the unique position where we could finish crops that could be used for stock feed if only we had water to finish our winter crops