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Fears aired over grain harvest transport in Australia
21.09.2010 11:38 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
A transport lobby group is warning logjams and delays will frustrate farmers anxious to move potentially the biggest Victorian grain harvest in 30 years this summer.
Official forecasts are for the harvest to be up 7 per cent.
The major grain handler, GrainCorp, says it can store 20 million tonnes and is planning to build extra bunkers.
But Vernon Knight, from the Alliance of Councils for Rail Freight Development, says with good prices on offer, farmers will not be looking to store their crop.
«The challenge is going to be and the desire is going to be for a lot of growers to access those markets as quickly as possible,» he said.
«I think there is still, from my information, a good deal of grain in storage now we really dont have either the road or rail capacity to meet that challenge.»
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