© ABC Rural: Jess DavisTo the naked eye this wheat crop looks good, but inside are damaged grains.
It was always going to be a big ask for the nation's grain crop to reach last year's record breaker, but extreme weather events across the country have guaranteed the harvest is well down on last year.
Some grain-growing regions have even reported a drop of more than 70 per cent on last year's harvest.
In the north of the country grain
farmers battled extreme dry, in NSW and Victoria a late frost and record rains damaged crops, and WA made a comeback late in the season with much-needed rain.
Dry winter impacts yieldsFor Matthew Dart who farms at Merriwagga in southern NSW it's a harvest he was happy to see the back of.
"It was one of those years where any mistake in any given sequence you were penalised so heavily," he said.
Comment: Weather patterns are out of sync, in particular global temperatures are plummeting, and as a consequence we're seeing devastating crop losses all over the world: