Heavy winter rains devastate NSW crops

Tamworth based ABC
rural reporter,
Joanna Woodburn.

Widespread, heavy rain has devastated crops in central western New South Wales, while other parts of the state have also been inundated.

Few farmers would usually complain about rain, but there is such a thing as getting too much and at the wrong time.

Record rainfalls in the past three months in parts of the state have damaged and killed winter crops such as wheat, barley and chickpeas.

The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) said it had been the third wettest winter on record.

Read Joanna Woodburn’s ABC story - “Rain wipes out NSW crops in third wettest winter on record.”