How big will the Western Australian wheat harvest be?
According to the Grains Industry of Western Australia industry group, the total 2022-23 grains harvest in Australia’s top producing state will reach “around” 20m tonnes.
With wheat historically accounting for 55% of the state’s total grains output, that would imply a harvest of about 11m tonnes this year.
That would represents an above-average result, second to last season’s. But will rains arrive in time to resolve the “precarious position” that dryness has left the crop in?
| Season | Total grains output |
Wheat output |
Wheat as proportion of total harvest |
| 2022-23 | “around 20” | n/a | n/a |
| 2021-22 | 24.01 | 12.89 | 54% |
| 2020-21 | 16.6 | 9.19 | 55% |
| 2019-20 | 11.29 | 5.55 | 49% |
| 2018-19 | 17.91 | 10.15 | 57% |
| 2017-18 | 14.28 | 7.6 | 53% |
| 2016-17 | 18.16 | 10.17 | 56% |
| 2015-16 | 14.82 | 9.2 | 62% |
| Average for 2015-16 to 2021-22 | 16.72 | 9.25 | 55% |
| Source: Giwa. Output data in million tonnes |
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