Rural Notebook | Dry dams appear to be the new norm

By John Seaman
April 22 2018 - 7:00am
BIG WHEELS: Millie Watson’s family machinery stand won an award for its presentation at the Royal Bathurst Show. Millie and I were proud of this Kubota tractor.
BIG WHEELS: Millie Watson’s family machinery stand won an award for its presentation at the Royal Bathurst Show. Millie and I were proud of this Kubota tractor.

LAST week’s surge of sheep and cattle into saleyards was a timely reminder that many unwanted decisions have been made and a howling dust storm to our near west showed us that these conditions have returned after just a two-year let-up, and the formerly accepted practice of heavy stocking (nine or 10 dry sheep equivalents to a hectare) now seems like a very distant memory.

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