We have seen the rainfall data, and the hope for this season. The question remains, how do you get through 10 years of drought? With 2010 in the West Australian Wheatbelt set to be the 2nd lowest rainfall year on record.
What can we learn from our Victorian friends? The women's agronomy group was shown a very frank presentation on a couple of farms. They 'opened the books'.....the cost of finance has increase, and thank goodness for the low interest rates of the time....... the price of lamb has increased.....the farming practises have changed.......all three levels of Government jumped in with support........there were profit years along the way. The community has suffered, and worked out how to support each other.
The attached recording is John Ferrier, a wheat/sheep farmers with a couple of strategies they used during the drought.
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