Australia’s historic ‘peanut capital’, Kingaroy, is running out of nuts because of climate change

The Queensland town of Kingaroy is famous for its nuts — its farmers planted some of Australia’s first commercial crops in 1901.

But drought and a shifting rainfall pattern in the South Burnett region are changing things.

Second-generation peanut grower Peter Howlett said usually farmers would be in the middle of the harvest at this time of year.

“Our crop has been later,” he said.