The long-term weather forecast for February to April 2026 is revealed in the Bureau’s official video release available to access here
Farmers are currently being attacked on all fronts, including both fire and floods, but will face another growing season with vigour as long-term forecasts for February to April 2026 reveal ideal conditions for crop planting.
Considering both growers and beef producers’ bank balances are flush with funds from a record 2025-26 Farmgate value of $99.5 billion, this upcoming 2026-27 planting season may break the previous 26.485-million-hectare total planting set in season 2024-25.
See how farmers achieved a $99.5 billion farmgate value in season 2025-26 here.
Read a summary of the choppy winter cropping season of 2025-26 that dipped and then swung and turned into a high-yielding season for the second-best harvest on record here.
But for now, growers in marginal country will be studying the long-range weather forecast video for February to April 2026, intensively.
The crossed purpose messages highlighted in the video includes:
- a weak signal for rainfall over much of Australia, meaning there are roughly equal chances of above, below or near-average rainfall
- rainfall is likely to be below average for parts of Australia’s south and west
- daytime temperatures are likely to very likely to be above average across Australia
- overnight temperatures are very likely to be above average across much of Australia
All water off a duck’s back as far as seasoned growers are concerned. They will be watching the conditions in their local area intensively, and will base planting levels on the same values applied for the past two highly successful seasons.
