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one reason touted for lower protein in early harvested wheat. </strong></p> <p>Agfarm account manager Fabian Devereaux said protein levels of 10 per cent or more were expected, given the tough finish to the season.<br /></p><p>Instead, wheat harvested so far had protein levels of 8-9 per cent. </p><p>"I think with the touch-and-go season, maybe they (growers) didn't throw the nitrogen at it as they normally would throughout the growing period,'' Mr Devereaux said.<br /></p><p>"Even after doing soil tests, not knowing how the season was going to progress, they may have held off on that component.''<br /></p><p>"It's a bit of an unknown but as the year progresses, there'll probably be a bit more research on why.''<br /></p><p>Mr Devereaux said harvesting in the Swan Hill area was running a fortnight later than usual, because of the cool finish after late rain in September which plumped up heads.<br /></p><p>"Growers are waiting for the green sappy grains to dry off,'' he said. <br /></p><p>"The crop is dry and brittle, but we don't want bad weather on wheat because it could fall over.''<br /></p><p>Garrisons Grain Storage manager Scott Hartshorn said growers had so far delivered 9000 tonnes of feed and food-grade barley and 1000 tonnes of wheat to the site near Swan Hill.<br /></p><p>Yields were lower than the past two seasons, with barley down 10 per cent while early wheat and canola were as much as 30 per cent lower.<br /></p><p>Further north, Deniliquin grain grower Graeme Macdonald has begun harvesting 400ha of canola grown underdh irrigation.<br /></p><p>Mr Macdonald said it was yielding about two tonnes/ha.<br /></p><p>He said two thirds of the canola had been forward sold at about $540 a tonne.<br /></p><p>Mr Macdonald said he had planted 1000ha each of wheat and barley, 300ha of rice and 30ha of maize.</p><p>He had some soyabeans to plant as soon the wheat was harvested. </p><p>He said the wheat was averaging 4-5 tonnes/ha under irrigation, while the 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