Third-generation dairy farmer Leigh Shearman says things have actually become worse for farmers in the four months since catastrophic floods hit northern NSW.
A few months ago, dairy farmers on the New South Wales north coast were confronting a crisis they had never before witnessed — massive floods washing valuable stock out to sea, homes inundated and machinery gone.
One-year-old cane has been almost completely destroyed after being submerged in flood water for weeks. The 65-year-old is slowly coming to terms with not just the scale of losses in the paddock, but his community."We've got 27 members." "When you start to see commerce start to grind to a halt, you know, that effects everyone who owns a takeaway shop through to bigger companies like ours."
"It's every shop that you walk into in Casino, it's every shop you walk into that's left in Lismore; everybody's affected, you can see it," he said.Macadamia industry bracing for mass lossesMore than 270,000 trees have been planted here over the past five years.
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