MALLEE Sustainable Farming has picked a very good time for its current trials on strategies to get crops through a dry year.

Because by and large, that’s exactly what it got in large slabs of its footprint.

Ouyen’s long-term average rainfall is 330mm – it had received just 106.9mm. Mildura’s long term should be 287mm but just 127.4mm had fallen.

MSF managing director Jenny Garonne said ...