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crunching noise nearly every step he takes in the dusty paddock.
The crop he's walking through – and stepping on because of
its low height – should be approaching waist height, but it's brown, dead,
barely up to Brad Martin's ankles and crunching underfoot.
The failed crop, in a large paddock near Warracknabeal, is
one of many crops smashed by the severe dry that has hit Victoria's grain belt.
Read the story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Big dry crunches crops and farmer earnings”.
