A flood-hit farmer’s lament for his lost cows: ‘It’s the helplessness of hearing them wailing’
Tue 23 Mar 2021 09.30 GMT Last changed on Tue 23 Mar 2021 10.12 GMT It was the horrified bellows of his dairy cows as the flooding waters rapidly climbed around them that broke the Taree milk farmer Rod Lattimore’s heart. “I live in Cundletown as well as I rested and watched cows flooding down the river, already dead,” he stated. “But back after that, ranches were smaller, household ranches … but now, you understand, we’re going to bleed two times as numerous cows for a portion of the margin … Whether it’s dry spells or floods that come along, we’ve got no gets in the rates system to maintain farms running.