I was carting hay today and watching the dust billow up from the road where the huge C-Train’s have been carting the first grain harvested, to the bins in Esperance, thinking how lucky were we to have grain to harvest after this horrific start to this year.

I was chatting with a mate last night and where she is in Tassie, the spring has failed completely for the third year in a row.

There isn’t any surface water left and feed for stock, scarce. It’s like this in so many places across Australia.

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