Large scale chisels to forecast wheat production in of recent origin South Wales (NSW) due to the linger drouth have cast doubt over national forecasts for a near-record lop On Tuesday.

Large scale chisels to forecast wheat production in of recent origin South Wales (NSW) due to the linger drouth have cast doubt over national forecasts for a near-record lop

On Tuesday, the NSW state direction forecast that the ongoing dryness which hit NSW hardest, would limit the state's wheat lop to 4.4 million tonnes and the rice lop to 550 000t in the 2003/04 season.

Although far ahead of 2002/03 the