Eastern Victoria's 'forgotten drought' farmers say it is time the drought is called a natural disaster, after gale-force winds blow away the little topsoil left in their barren paddocks.
ABC Rural: Isabella PittawayAs gale-force winds create huge dust storms in Victoria's Central Gippsland, farmers say it is time to call the drought a natural disaster as the little remaining topsoil is blown away from paddocks.
Fifth-generation farmer, Andy McNaughton, drove away from his Seaspray farm because he could not stand to watch the ongoing damage to his drought-affected paddocks."All our dams are contaminated, we've got all our stock in containment, so they're drinking out of troughs, even they get contaminated in this dust," Mr Naughton said.
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