| Title | Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory | |
| Date | Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:37AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the What-CAN-be-done? dept. | ||
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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