NSW floods caused ‘catastrophe’ for Belmore River dairy farm

Dairy Farmer Sue McGinn told Sky News the New South Wales floods were a “catastrophe” for her dairy farm, devastating pastures and destroying paddock feed. “It’s a catastrophe here, we’re just managing on a day to day basis,” she said. “Our farm was completely inundated, from the Belmore at the front and then from the Hastings River, Moira River water networks at the back. “We’re actually still 50 per cent underwater … 10 days on and what we’re finding is just completely devastated pastures and we’ve got no paddock feed at all to feed our dairy stock”. Ms McGinn said her farm had just done its best four months of production in the lead up to the floods but now it could take at least six months to recover. “We would normally be planting our winter grasses but instead we’ve just got silt and basically brown, sticky, smelly mulch where pastures once were,” she said. “I have heard people say you wouldn’t be a farmer for quids, but someone has to feed the nation, we love what we do, we’re good at it and this is just a very big hump in the road".

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