Louise Flohr

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It is, Sam, and it's a lot of decision fatigue at the moment in the grain growing community.

We're trying to manage the things that we can and, yeah, just trying to keep an eye on all of the different things that are sort of getting thrown our way at the moment.

We're managing high fur prices, high fuel, and we're probably looking at higher interest rates coming at us soon.

So it's a lot to be dealing with at the moment.

Look, it's business as usual here, Sam.

We aren't in a position where we can cut down our area.

We need to be putting in our

our whole program.

So there's a few tweaks around the edges with some different crop types.

But yes, it's business as usual and keep calm and carry on because we can't afford to halve the input.

What's happened with this war, which is really different to what happened in the Ukraine war, was we saw prices go up

relatively to the price of wheat and so prices were all relative but this war has been different in that at the moment we sort of experience high input costs but the price of wheat's not really changed so it's really you're right we are going in really blind we are going to wear these high costs but we're not seeing the same relative increase in the price of grain at the end of the year so we expect it will go up but yeah we can't see it yet.

So we've seen diesel go up about 40%.

And we're lucky we had a bulk 30,000 litre diesel tank on farm.

So we are able to purchase it in bulk.

But we are at our absolutely highest peak of fuel usage at the moment.

We're seeding.

So the tractor is sort of going around the clock.

We're trying to ameliorate our soils where we can, which is really high diesel intensive use.