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my brother in law and father in law have a sheep station up North West NSW near Lightning Ridge and have not had good rain for 7 years it is as dry as a chip up there and has been so for years and yes lamb prices are good at the moment but it is not helping farmers much as when you sell what sheep you have it all pretty much goes back into feeding what you have left at $480 a tone for cotton seed or any other food for them its eating into what they can make for them selves to live .
my brother in law is not eligible for the government had out at the land value and machinery is over the 5mill threshold as is with a lot of farmers plus you need 2 weeks to fill out the forms to apply for it which these guys don't have time to do as they get up at 5am each morning to feed and don't get home till 10pm totally exhausted then you have the feral animal issue and when they get home at 10 ish pm it does not stop there there is things do do before you even get dinner let alone go to bed .
the best thing would be for it to rain steady for a couple of weeks but we all know that won't happen as records tell after a big dry you get flooding rain and that is another big headache on another scale
cheers Pete
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