SYDNEY: Agricultural chemical company Nufarm Ltd cut guidance for its fiscal 2018 underlying earnings after dry weather in Australia reduced demand for crop protection products, sending its shares down as much as 10%.
Unseasonably dry weather across Australia, a large agricultural exporter, has hurt many of the country’s rural firms, but Nufarm is the first to acknowledge production of this season’s crops such as wheat could fall drastically.
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