Country Today - April 21st
from Country Today Hosted by ACE Radio
Beef cattle producers from southern Queensland, into northern NSW and the Liverpool plains are having to destock due to it being unseasonably dry. There are now record yardings of cattle right down the east coast. The Victorian Farmers Federation has asked for more than $1 billion be paid to farmers in the May budget. Australia could and should have been better prepared for the current economic crisis created by the war with Iran. You'll hear from an economist who says it has all the hallmarks of being worse than the 2007 global financial crisis. Irrigators being urged to make a submission to the Murray–Darling Basin Plan’s first major review.
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