Australia: Heatwave hits cattle farmers
03/01/2014
"Water supplies are fast diminishing and whatever feed supplies that were left are cooking off to the point where there won't be any left," said Charles Burke, chief executive of Agforce, a Queensland cattle industry group.
"This drought is shaping to be an absolute disaster."
The Bureau of Meteorology said 2013 was the hottest year since records began in 1910.
Australia's cattle herd will fall to 25 million head during the 2013/14 season, the lowest since the 2009/10 season, said the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences.
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