Rain turns dry paddocks into bumper crops after years of drought

Key points

• Above-average rainfall has ended years of drought for farming families in South Australia's Riverland. Kiara Fisher, at Bugle Hut, says this year's bumper crop will help her family pay bills.
• Louise Smith, at Maggea, received 350 millimetres of rain so far this year, more than double last year's total, and hopes to turn a profit for the first time in about seven years.
• Grain Producers South Australia chief executive Brad Perry says the state's harvest could reach about 13 million tonnes, well above the average of 9 million tonnes.