Climate change is causing more extreme weather events, report says, as farmers feel the pinch

THIRD generation Harcourt farmer Katie Finlay says harvests have become more unpredictable over the 20 years she has worked her family’s land.

 RAIN, HAIL AND DROUGHT: Workers inspect a reservoir
during the Millennial Drought, one of many extreme
weather events a Harcourt farmer has been through
in the last 20 years.

“Dad had been through droughts, sure, but it’s the extremes,” she said.

“Not long after I got home (20 years ago) we went into the Millennial Drought. We’d never had anything like that. Since then, we’ve had the wettest year, the driest year, the biggest flood. It’s just ridiculous.”

Extreme weather was forcing farmers to change how they operated as new research forecasts the chaotic impact of climate change.

Read the story from the Bendigo Advertiser story by Tom O’Callaghan - “Climate change is causing more extreme weather events, report says, as farmers feel the pinch.”