Science / South Australia

Harvest starts on SA crops that 'have not had a setback all season'

ABC News Cassandra Hough

4 Oct 2026 07:33 AEDT Summary

Grain Growing Weather Crop Harvesting Farmers

From the report

Farmers on South Australia's west coast have delivered the first load of grain for the season.

Headline check

The one thing this headline claims is not in the report.

The headline puts “have not had a setback all season” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

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How it is written

Niral Score 6.6 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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Sentiment +0.5 hostilefavourable Sourcing 77 unattributednamed sources Mood 49 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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ABC Newsas they published this story	6.6

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