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Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:37AM   
from the What-CAN-be-done? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Reuters reports:

Record-low rainfall in some regions and successive seasons of above-average temperatures have blighted vast tracts of Australia's grazing and crop land.

[...] as grain silos in the south are emptied, desperate owners are being forced to slaughter animals, even if it means it will take years for herds to recover.

[...] The ground in drought-hit regions has dried out to such a depth that it is even killing large trees.

[...] The current dry period is not as extensive as the Millennium drought of 1997-2005, which devastated nearly 50 percent of the country's agricultural land and was associated with two El Niño systems, which bring hot, dry weather to Australia.

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• Not as extensive (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:55AM

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:55AM (#718657) Journal

  The current dry period is not as extensive as the Millennium drought of 1997-2005

  Not yet as extensive, there's time to catch up with the prognostic for the next 3 months set on "El Nino watch" (a bit over 50% chances it will happen).
  Anyway, it's the most "intensive" [abc.net.au] - 2018 autumn the lowest rain fall since 1960.

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