Business as unusual - farming through a decade of challenge

摘要

If there is one thing Australia can rely on it is that weather can no longer be relied on. The sunburnt country is having more than its fair share of drought and flooding rain, so Sarah Cole writes agriculture must once again do its best to adapt andthrive. Bright reds and yellows oft temperature maps quietly allude to record-breaking hot conditions. Soaring blue spikes on rainfall graphs hint at devastating floods. On-farm, behind the silent graphs and their extreme colours, the past 10 years haveserved up near-crippling climatic events for those who directly experienced — but successfully farmed through — these climate challenges.