Western Australian Grain Crops Hit by Frost

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Grain crops in Western Australia state, the nation's biggest wheat grower, may have suffered frost damage after temperatures fell overnight, CBH Group said.

Temperatures dropped to minus three degrees Celsius in Wandering, and minus one degree in Lake Grace in the Great Southern region, according to the Bureau of Meteorology's 9 a.m. weather bulletin, which was carried on its Web site.

``We're quite concerned, there's widespread reports in the southern half of the wheat belt of frost damage,'' Michael Musgrave, operations manager for Perth-based CBH, said in a phone interview. The frost will offset any benefit that rainfall, forecast for later in the week, may have, he said.