Jeff Bennett
Tales of rural doom and gloom in the face of the current drought are high on the media profile at present. It may surprise some who have digested this material that Australian farmers are, in fact, a robust lot. Rather than standing around waiting for help to arrive in the form of government handouts or donations from pitying urbanites, the majority of farmers are simply getting on with the task of running their businesses.
That isn’t easy right now in the face of the dry conditions. Nor is it anything new. Out of necessity, Australian farmers have been working out how to adapt European agricultural practices to the wide variations in seasonal conditions that characte…
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