Australia's historic 'peanut capital', Kingaroy, is running out of nuts because of climate change
Peter Howlett is considering if future rainfall will be enough to continue to grow nuts.
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The Queensland town of Kingaroy is famous for its nuts — its farmers planted some of Australia's first commercial crops in 1901.
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Peanut production in the area is dwindling because of unpredictable summer rainfall
Bega says its massive processing plant will stay in Kingaroy, despite fewer local nuts
But drought and a shifting rainfall pattern in the South Burnett region are changing things.
Second-generation peanut grower Peter Howlett said usually farmers would be in the middle of the harvest at this time of year.