Farmers struggle to preserve land left exposed after bushfires

Valuable South Australian
farmland stripped bare after
recent devastating fires.

A huge expanse of normally productive farming land in South Australia's mid north now looks more like a desert after a bushfire tore through 85,000 hectares last November, killing two people.

"We're pretty well looking at 55,000 hectares at least of bare land which is something we haven't seen for a long time," Mary-Anne Young from Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA), said.

"In a drought there may be a paddock here and a paddock there or every second paddock, but in this situation all of the land has been exposed and it's all drifting."

Read the ABC story - “SA bushfires: Farmers fight to save topsoil after devastating 85,000-hectare blaze.”