Australia’s Anna Creek station, which is larger than Israel, has sold half of its 16,000 head of cattle for slaughter and is moving the rest to other grazing lands in the face of the country’s worst drought in a century.
The managing director of the company that owns the ranch in the southern Australian outback said this is only the third time since the European settlement of southern Australia that the region has experienced such a drought. Much of Australia has been suffering from the “Big Dry,” which has sharply reduced wheat and rice harvests.
In New Zealand, that nation’s prime minister has called on citizens to cut back on energy use because a two-year drought has lowered water levels in lakes to the point that the hydroelectric sector, which provides about 75 percent of the country’s electricity, is having difficulty meeting demand.
The managing director of the company that owns the ranch in the southern Australian outback said this is only the third time since the European settlement of southern Australia that the region has experienced such a drought. Much of Australia has been suffering from the “Big Dry,” which has sharply reduced wheat and rice harvests.
In New Zealand, that nation’s prime minister has called on citizens to cut back on energy use because a two-year drought has lowered water levels in lakes to the point that the hydroelectric sector, which provides about 75 percent of the country’s electricity, is having difficulty meeting demand.