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Tomatoes floating in muddy water in lane of tomato paddock

"After the rain [from the past two weeks] we lost more than 70 per cent of our patches,"
Mr Nyugen said.
Man in blue jumper stands in middle of waterlogged paddock holding damaged yellow tomato in hand

Large reflective body of water blocking main road

"It makes me feel bad because all the expense we put it there is now gone. Now we need to get back the profit for our expense,"
he said.
truss of cherry tomatoes ripening on bush

"All the fruit [will] turn red and we get very cheap price for that,"
he said.

"[Buyers will] start looking to other areas like South Australia or Queensland to get fruit because of the damage to Carnarvon's fruit,"
Mr Burgess said.
A group of farmers having a meal in a shed.

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