Farms: Drought takes toll on Australian farmers
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The eastern Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales are in the grip of the most severe drought ever recorded. Some farmers in Australia are having to shoot their cattle because they cannot afford to feed them. The financial strain caused by the drought is starting to take a toll on farmers' mental health. Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from Broken Hill, west of Sydney.
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farmers forget that farming is a business, not a job. if your farms not making money, sell it. pretty simple, money in = money out
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Should plant more trees. This makes a microclimate. Over farming doesn't work for the greater good.
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GOOD- AUSTRALIA KILLED A LOT OF NATIVE PEOPLE AND NOW THEY SHOULD DIE AS WELL!
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they can convert to silvopasture (pasture with fodder tree alley). and rotation grazing system when no grass grazing they can polarding tree for fodder and fire wood .
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good i hope these european crop fails
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Climate-change is a bitch.
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Dudes and dudettes, you aussies live at the same lattitude as the Sahara. This is not going to go away.
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let the rain fall
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These parts of Australia are so fragile, cattle don't belong there in the first place. These graziers have blood on there hands by there own making. Yet the cattle are the ones who suffer.
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Our outback can be really unforgiving. That's why pretty much everyone lives on the coast.
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Now say after me... climate change is an illusion, climate change is an illusion, climate change is an illusion.....