The state's key growing areas have recorded some of the driest months on record, and according to experts, it's not over yet.
South Australian farmers are dry seeding after one of the driest starts to the year on record for some districts.
It has been the eighth-driest April on record in the state and three dry months have pushed some growing areas into serious and severe rainfall deficiencies. Since August, areas considered in rainfall deficiency have increased across parts of the state's Upper and Lower South East, Kangaroo Island, Lower Eyre Peninsula, West Coast, Mid North and Flinders districts.Evan Kakoschke farms just over 2,000 hectares outside of Sandilands on the Yorke Peninsula, where he grows wheat, barley and lentils and has a self-replacing merino flock.
"Given the very long history of successful farming in SA and the very large variation we see in rainfall within and across years, we know farmers in SA have developed and evolved systems to best cope with climate variables. "Generally this time of year we have no one around, but most people are just knocking off for the weekend and starting again on the Monday, because there is just no rain forecast.
As well as being a dry month, it was also South Australia's coldest April for more 30 years and the 10th-coldest since records began.
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