Years of drought culls Aussie sheep flock to record low
A dead sheep lies in a dry and dusty field of a failed crop due to drught near Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, in August 2018. – EPA pic, May 28, 2020.
YEARS of drought in Australia’s east has caused the national sheep flock to shrink to the lowest levels since records began more than a century ago, agricultural figures revealed Thursday. Farmers sold-off or disposed of A$21 billion worth of livestock in total last year, as the nation’s sheep count fell to 66 million, its lowest level since at least 1905.
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