The sight of hay trucks rolling into drought-ravaged farms has put a smile on farmers faces as they battle to survive a challenging weather pattern.
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Farmers spread over 200,000 square kilometres – between Wilcannia and Gilgandra, and Gilgunnia and Cunnamulla – received hay this week after a convoy of trucks dropped fodder at designated depots.
The relief was the work of The Lions Club’s Need For Feed Disaster Relief program and Farmers Across Borders – Hay from WA.
Sixty-seven truck loads – 47 road trains from Farmers Across Borders and 20 Lions trailers made it to the depots.
Unfortunately two trailers went up in flames during the journey from Western Australia.
Need For Feed’s logistics coordinator Cassandra McLaren said the landscape showed the drought was still biting in many parts of NSW and Queensland.
She said scorching temperatures in many of these areas were putting a strain on the water supply, and bringing farmers even more challenges.
Around Narromine there was a little bit of growth and the land east of that was far better – some had crops they had baled. Anything west of Narromine looked bare and in desperate need of help, they haven’t had the rain,
- she said.
“There has been a little bit of green growth in the Hunter but as we headed south we noticed the lack of rain.”
How the hay run unfolded
Loading up:
The trucks couldn’t wait to get on the road and bring relief to drought-stricken farmers.
On the road:
Trucks brought hay to farmers across 200,000 square kilometres in NSW and Queensland.
Here they come:
Supporters stopped to wave, or toot their horns, at the truck drivers as they made their way through rural communities.
The relief continues:
Need For Feed’s hay relief deliveries are continuing each day. This drop was made in Brewarrina.
Belinda-Jane Davis
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