DROUGHT in America and war in Ukraine – and a widespread autumn break described by Victorian cropper and NFF vice president David Jochinke as "on time and on budget" – will be making other producers start to squirm and examine their own budgets.

Dairy Australia's Senior Industry Analyst, Sofia Omstedt conceded the dairy industry, coming off a boom 2020/21, is "not immune to broad inflationary pressures, with cost pressures and margin imp