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      Listed under:  Economics and business  >  Industries  >  Primary industry  >  Agriculture  >  Farming systems
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      Trevor Smith discusses dealing with droughts, 2008

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      This is an edited sound recording of Trevor Smith, a wheat and sheep farmer in the Forbes area of central New South Wales. He explains what it is like being a farmer who has to deal with a prolonged period of drought. Smith tells of the financial strains on farming businesses and the psychological strains on individual ...

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      Kerry Alcock describes his Cyclone Larry experience, 2008

      • TLF-IDR8856

      This is an edited sound recording of a Queensland banana grower, Kerry Alcock, describing the devastation wrought by Cyclone Larry on his family business plantation in March 2006. Alcock tells how his crop was totally destroyed and how a new crop had to be planted from scratch using about 65,000 'suckers'. He also points ...

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