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January Outlook 2025 SA

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  January outlook 2025 SA    *Forecast prepared between Jan 1 st -5th 2024       Review:    G’Day one and all and a very Happy New Year to you, I hope 2025 brings far better fortune than 2024 did with regards to the weather and cropping in general as that was not a pleasant year to say the least. I trust and hope you have all had a great Christmas with family. Myself unfortunately not so, being extremely ill for nearly 3 weeks from mid-December till now and spending all of Christmas Day staring at the ceiling in bed with severe Bronchitis or Pneumonia – it certainly does knock the stuffing out of you and as a result I was unable to even get out of bed for a good week and do the mid-month update. But in any case, we will take a look back now at how the month went. December 2024 was for the most part a relatively dry month across the agricultural areas with general below average rainfall as per Figure 1 shows below: Figure 1: ...