• PHOTO: Wingadee homestead cut off by flood water.
WITH more rain forecast in the week ahead, local croppers are again on edge.
For many there will be no winter crop harvest this year and they are considering whether even a summer crop is possible.
A spokesperson for NSW Farmers says that the damage bill to the state’s 2022 crop could “easily exceed $1billion.”
NSW Farmers Grains Committee chair Justin Everitt said some farmers were calling it a ‘wet drought’, and while it was unlikely to directly . . .
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