Bumper Australian crops unlikely to provide relief at the cash register

Produce prices will remain high, with the full impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Covid disruptions in China still to be felt. Photograph: redbrickstock.com/Alamy

Australia is set for its third bumper season of crops in a row, but the increased production will probably bring little relief at the cash register as rising global demand pushes prices skyward.

Australian farmers will plant an area almost the size of England this winter as they try to take advantage of soaring global food prices and a third year of good rains.