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Calls for drought declaration as southern Queensland graziers begin to destock
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Meandarra cattle farmer Bill Plant and his family think it is time for the state government to declare a drought A cloud of dust billows around a cattle truck as it rattles onto a parched farm in south-west Queensland...
Meandarra cattle farmer Bill Plant and his family think it is time for the state government to declare a drought A cloud of dust billows around a cattle truck as it rattles onto a parched farm in south-west Queensland.
Bill Plant has ordered the truck to take the last of his family's weaners to sale, as part of a destocking program driven by dry conditions on their Meandarra property, about 380 kilometres west of Brisbane.
His herd of about 1,000 cattle has been reduced to fewer than 400.
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Meandarra cattle farmer Bill Plant and his family think it is time for the state government to declare a drought A cloud of dust billows around a cattle truck as it rattles onto a parched farm in south-west Queensland.
Bill Plant has ordered the truck to take the last of his family's weaners to sale, as part of a destocking program driven by dry conditions on their Meandarra property, about 380 kilometres west of Brisbane.
His herd of about 1,000 cattle has been reduced to fewer than 400.
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