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Grain crops aren’t common on King Island, which is dominated by green pasture due to its climate and rainfall, but veteran farmer Robbie Payne says they are possible.

“For growing, the rainfall is always reliable. But the biggest problem is probably trying to get the grain moisture levels down,” he said.

“You don’t always get those hot, drying days that you do in traditional grain-grower country.”

King Island distiller Thomas Shaw inspects the progress of the barley.(

Supplied: Vaughan O’Connor

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Mr O’Connor isn’t too concerned. He has grain growing in his veins because his father grew up in Yarrawonga in the “wheat and barley belt” of Victoria.

“We’re very fortunate in the fact that we can pick up the phone and talk to my second cousins and uncles and actually say, ‘What are we doing wrong here? What do we need to do to get this crop going?'” he said.

Mr Shaw knows it can be done. The previous owner of his farm grew barley to feed livestock.

“And I grew a test crop about three years ago,” he said.

The inaugural distillery crop was planted in November and now boasts “beautiful, fat barley heads”.

But growing might be the easy part; harvesting is another story.

‘Cranking up the old beast’ King Island farmers helped transport an ageing Massey Ferguson header to the distillery.(

Supplied: Thomas Shaw

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