In Australia, uses include, for example, pancake mixes, cakes, biscuits, breakfast cereals and noodles. Buckwheat is a cool climate crop. Seedlings can survive a mild spring frost but frost in early autumn before ripe grain is formed can severely affect yield. Ideal production districts in NSW include the New England Plateau and Central and Southern Highlands, and in Victoria the high valleys in the north-east, the Central Highlands and parts of the Western District and Gippsland. Various soil types are suitable, from the ironbark country of some NSW highland areas to the deep red potato soils of Ballarat.
Buckwheat responds to good summer rainfall, but is intolerant of waterlogging.
It can manage with little water until flowering time, when either rain or irrigation is critical for yield. Improved varieties and agronomy should increase this in future. Buckwheat is an out-crossing plant so seed crops should be isolated to retain purity. Bees may well help improve yield. All three varieties grow, flower and ripen in 60 days.