Long haul for hay as demand outstrips supply

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Updated April 24 2018 - 12:43pm, first published April 21 2018 - 8:30am
Feed demand: Trucks like this are travelling long distances to source cereal and oaten hay for farmers struggling with dry conditions as feed is brought in from outside NSW.
Feed demand: Trucks like this are travelling long distances to source cereal and oaten hay for farmers struggling with dry conditions as feed is brought in from outside NSW.

With local hay reserves all but exhausted, huge numbers of cereal and oaten bales have been coming in from South Australia, Victoria and the Central West of NSW.

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I’ve been a journo and sub-editor​ with Fairfax since 1997 and I’ve worked at the Glen Innes Examiner, the Armidale Express, The Northern Daily Leader and Country Leader, The Land and the Walcha News. When I’m not in the office I can be found running around after my two children (aged 14 and 10) and I also help my husband with our beef, wool and lamb enterprise at Walcha. I’ll be working for 15 hours per week as a rural writer for the New England rural mastheads - Country Leader, North West Magazine and Border News.

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