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Australian Drought Stirs Tension Over Public Lands.
Australian Drought Stirs Tension Over Public Lands - WSJ.comAlmost three-quarters of farmers surveyed by the Queensland agricultural lobby AgForce said this drought is having a heavier financial impact on Australia's northern cattle industry than the previous dry spell. Stock prices have crashed from around A$500 for a calf to A$200. In the outback town of Longreach, adult cattle recently traded for just A$20 a head, from an average A$674 a year ago.
On Colwell Station, southeast of the rural hub of Mount Isa, manager Luke McNevin was unable to get cattle into a park refuge and said he was having to destroy livestock, tipping the carcasses into a boneyard in the dusty paddocks on his 40,000-acre property.
"There's just too many cattle and we've had to put them down," Mr. McNevin, 35, said. "This Christmas is our last throw of the dice."