# Harvest season strips back records as farmers rushed to finish line | Stock & Land | VIC

> Australia's 2020-21 winter harvest finished about two weeks faster than normal despite labour shortages and early storms. Western Australia's crop was about 15 million tonnes, though dry conditions cut yield potential in Central Queensland.

- Date: 2021-01-11 · published 2021-01-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Australia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/49107-harvest-season-strips-back-records-as-farmers-rushed-to-finish-line-stock-and
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

A large, quickly harvested Australian crop adds to global wheat supply, a mildly bearish factor for prices, while the Queensland shortfall is limited in scale.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2020-10-13 | [Crop set to be one of the biggest on record as headers start to roll \| Farm Online \| ACT](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50602-crop-set-to-be-one-of-the-biggest-on-record-as-headers-start-to-roll-farm.md) | +1.8% | -0.1% |
| WHEAT | 2017-12-19 | [Farmers ramp up harvest activity \| VIC](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67433-farmers-ramp-up-harvest-activity-vic.md) | +0.5% | +0.8% |
| WHEAT | 2020-12-03 | [Australia to Harvest Second Biggest Wheat Crop on Record \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49623-australia-to-harvest-second-biggest-wheat-crop-on-record-feed-and-grain.md) | +9.8% | +9.8% |
| WHEAT | 2021-07-01 | [Back to back bumper harvests \| The Land \| NSW](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46012-back-to-back-bumper-harvests-the-land-nsw.md) | -2.7% | -4.7% |
| WHEAT | 2020-07-16 | [Australian farmers prepare to harvest large wheat crop](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52069-australian-farmers-prepare-to-harvest-large-wheat-crop.md) | -0.0% | -2.6% |

## Sources

- stockandland.com.au: https://www.stockandland.com.au/story/7082288/fast-whopper-grain-harvest-defies-weather-and-labour-shortages/

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