State Agriculture Minister, Alannah MacTiernan has responded to concerns raised on Perth Live on Wednesday that WA farmers will have nowhere to store their grain due to a backlog in clearing the silos from last year’s harvest.

“It is true that we have had this most incredible surge in production – normally a good season is around 16-17 million tons – and this year we are on track for around 23-24 tons, so as you can imagine as this has been so far out of the ordinary that this has put the supply chain under a lot of stress,” she told Oliver Peterson on Thursday afternoon.

“We have been working with CBH to build capacity – so there is no doubt that they will be able to receive all the grain and place it in this temporary storage.”

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