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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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• Kangaroo meat time Kangaroo meat time (Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:26PM (1 child)

  by corey (2202) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:26PM (#719103)

  Time we all started to eat more roo meat. There's a plague of kangaroos in the fridge affected areas. Kangaroos also require a *lot* less water and chemicals to farm than cows.

  Time to start adapting to droughts. Maybe the cotton and rice farmers will go this way too.

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• Re:Kangaroo meat time (Score: 2) by corey on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:10AM

  by corey (2202) on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:10AM (#719131)

  Fridge = drought

  Here in wintery Melbourne, it is a bit fridge affected.

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