Drought-stricken farmers given helping hand with Australia Day hay donation

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With drought crippling WA's southern rangelands, a donation of hay may be the only thing getting pastoralists through the summer.

For pastoralist Greg Watters, owner of Mt Clere Station, which is situated 200km north-west of Meekatharra, the hay has come at a time when hope is wearing thin."Some people are saying this hay is not going to help us much at all … but it does help us. It gives us another couple of months of reprieve and the biggest fact is that people are helping us, which really puts us in front."

However, in the past four years, with little rainfall Mr Watters admits it is starting to look precarious. "If we get a few more inches of rain, it'll be good … but if we don't, it's going to be worse than ever before."Over the Australia Day long weekend, not-for-profit group Farmers Across Borders organised a hay run from Esperance to Meekatharra.

 

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