Jul 5, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
In this episode of Risk Wise, Jake Giles speaks with John Richardson from lower Eyre Peninsula about managing risk in a high-rainfall, waterlogging-prone farming system. John farms in partnership…
John RichardsonGuest
Jake GilesHost
As you well know, most of the peninsula will probably be trying to hang on to every mil of stored moisture they can get.
So we're up to 280 mil year to date with 20 mil forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
We can sort of handle about 80 millimetres per month until it starts to get too wet for crop growth.
The wheat is losing grain numbers at the moment we think through some till loss and shorter heads potentially that will be produced and if the water logging continues we'll start to lose plants and our root system as well because the plants only want to grow up in the aerobic conditions of the thin layer of topsoil so yeah we're already losing canola plants in the wet areas of the canola Faber beans are holding up okay and it's been quite a good pasture year so far.
So yeah, in regards to pasture, you've just had that run the whole way through from like the season started a whole lot earlier.
And then that slow growth, I'm guessing you've just, yeah, they've been going right from the start.
It's been a low supplementary feed summer, which has been nice after the, yeah 24 25 where there was a lot of supplementary feeding went on
As you well know, most of the peninsula will probably be trying to hang on to every mil of stored moisture they can get.
So we're up to 280 mil year to date with 20 mil forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
We can sort of handle about 80 millimetres per month until it starts to get too wet for crop growth.
The wheat is losing grain numbers at the moment we think through some till loss and shorter heads potentially that will be produced and if the water logging continues we'll start to lose plants and our root system as well because the plants only want to grow up in the aerobic conditions of the thin layer of topsoil so yeah we're already losing canola plants in the wet areas of the canola Faber beans are holding up okay and it's been quite a good pasture year so far.
So yeah, in regards to pasture, you've just had that run the whole way through from like the season started a whole lot earlier.
And then that slow growth, I'm guessing you've just, yeah, they've been going right from the start.
It's been a low supplementary feed summer, which has been nice after the, yeah 24 25 where there was a lot of supplementary feeding went on
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