Dustbowl to record breaking canola harvest for family farm at Oberon

From a dust bowl to a record breaking harvest, it has been a massive turnaround for one farming team in New South Wales.

Conditions were “desperate” in January 2020 on Mayfield, the Hawkins family farm at Oberon, managed by Peter Brooks.

“In 2019 the farm was heavily in drought and practically a dustbowl, so [how the season turned] is beyond our wildest expectations,” Mr Brooks said.

“We were having stock water issues and the farm was in…