Wheat Farmers Forced To Make Hay Following Crop Failure Due To Drought

GUNNEDAH, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 4: Jason Knapman holds some of the failed wheat crop being used for making hay in a paddock on the Knapman family property located on the outskirts of the north-western New South Wales town of Gunnedah October 4, 2019 in Australia. Lack of rain has forced wheat farmers in the Gunnedah region to turn their failed wheat crops into hay, which they are selling to cattle and sheep farmers desperate to feed their remaining stock as the drought continues across New South Wales. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has declared the ongoing drought across the Murray Darling Basin to be the worst on record, with current conditions now exceeding the Federation Drought (1895-1903), the WWII drought (1937-1947) and the Millennium drought (1997-2009). The Federal and NSW Governments announced a new drought emergency funding plan on Sunday 13 October, with $1billion to go to water infrastructure for rural and regional communities impacted by the devastating drought in NSW, including a $650m upgrade of Wyangala Dam in the NSW central west and a $480m new Dungowan Dam near Tamworth. (Photo by David Gray/Getty Images)