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A man and a woman smiling as they stand in a golden crops of rice.

A red header in a paddock harvesting a golden rice crop.

"If you work on $2,000 a hectare, this year alone, we've put probably $1 million into the local economy,"
Mr Cremasco said.

A woman sitting in a tractor cab smiling.

"[People] were scared obviously at that time that we were going to run out of food, so the importance of being able to look after ourselves has probably never been more valuable."

A man wearing a blue shirt sitting in a header.

Two men standing in a rice paddock looking a sample of rice, a header is working the paddock behind them stripping rice..

"If it can perform on a cold year like this, then we've got a very good, reliable crop."
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Two men wearing lab coats looking at a a packet of brown rice in a processin

"After two years of drought, we got to the point in time where we literally were running out of Australian rice, but thankfully with this harvest we can put the new season crop on supermarket shelves,"
Mr Howard said.

A conveyor belt with bags of rice on it in a large factory room.

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