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PhilipShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 01:43 AM
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Reuters: Drought scars Australia's land and farmers
02 Feb 2007

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP107703.htm


ASS, Australia, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Farmers battling Australia's worst drought on record are shooting cattle they can't feed, abandoning dustbowl farms to search for grass with hungry livestock and hand-feeding animals on moonscape paddocks.

The worst drought in 100 years has left farmers the length and breadth of Australia looking to the sky and praying for rain.

Dead trees stand like tombstones on barren hills, dry stream gullies look like gaping wounds and dams are cracked and baked.

The further you drive west of Sydney, the worse the view becomes. The few green patches disappear and a brown wasteland extends to the horizon, littered with livestock carcasses and dead native animals, the latter killed by trucks as they scavenged for food on the side of roads.
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LaBanty Donating Member (131 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:20 AM
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1. keep praying for rain
and let me know how that works out, okay?
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