Farmers in Australia struggle amid the historic drought
The conditions Australia is currently experiencing count as the most severe in its modern history. It’s not yet the longest spell of drought, but it is the hottest.
Since 2012, it has devastated cattle ranches, sheep farms and swaths of arable land across the outback.
The drought has reduced his sheep stock from 7,000 to approximately 3,600, and cattle from 260 breeders to 22.
Australia has experienced 9 of the 10 warmest years on record since 2005. A heat wave in January broke records across the country.
With January bushfires on the southern island of Tasmania and monsoon flooding in parts of Queensland in February, Australia is battling the gamut of extreme weather linked to climate change.
Contract shearers with sheep on
Turn Turn Station, near Eulo, in Queensland in November. Compared to 2017, wool production reduced by 30% because of the drought.
Dunmore has been in her husband Gus's family for 111 years.
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