PRIMARY INDUSTRY: US grain giant’s $2.7 billion bid for Australia’s GrainCorp*

“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan in the famous poem, “before the year is out”. He then cites the obstacles to agricultural production in Australia — drought, floods and bushfires, to name a few.
“John O’Brien” (pen-name of Father Patrick Hartigan) certainly understood his country people. Farmers know there are few certainties in agricultural production in Australia. So do stock-exchange investors — and they don’t like it….

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