Australia - Hail storm wipes out 80 per cent of winter crop at Rannock

17.11.2015 82 views
A FREAK hail storm has wiped out more than 80 per cent of winter crops at a farming district in the Riverina. The severe weather on Friday afternoon devastated crops and infrastructure at Rannock. Farmers in the district described the isolated storm as the most severe they had seen. Barry Dennis of “Kooringa”, Rannock had started harvesting canola and some was still wind rowed in the paddock. He has put early estimates of the damage at an 80 to 100 per cent loss. “We had finished and harvest a fair patch of canola, maybe about half of it,” he said. “It has knocked the house around a bit too,” he said. “There are no lupins left at all and there are paddocks of wheat where you would be lucky to find one head left standing,” he said. Mr Dennis said of all the crops barley was the worst hit. He said other farmers in the region experienced hail damage too. It was estimated the storm hit a band which was about two kilometres wide. “I have never seen a hail storm like this, nothing has escaped,” he said. The task has now turned to salvaging what is left. “We are chasing sheep feed now, some of the damaged crops can be used as stock feed,” he said. Mr Dennis said the weather event reinforced how important crop insurance is in managing the risk following from such a big loss. “We are lucky we are insured,” he said. Source - http://www.therural.com.au
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