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Flood water covering the majority of a young pecan nut plantation.

A row of damaged macadamia trees.

A man wearing a blue polo shirt and blue cap stands next to macadamia trees. There is red farm buggy in background.

A man and woman hold a damaged macadamia tree in their orchard.

A macadamia tree loaded with nuts split at its trunk.

Macadamia trees in an orchard split with branches hanging over.

Two hands holding onto a branch with green coffee cherries.

A woman wearing blue holds a damaged coffee plant full of green coffee cherries.

A woman throws a damaged coffee tree branch onto a pile.

Floodwater surrounds two large greenhouses.

Dead soybean plants in a paddock.

A field of brown dead soybean crop.

"We're at 80 to 90 per cent loss of soybeans all over, so a huge hit."

A cane crop in flood water.

"So far there's been about 375,000 litres of Norco farmer milk that's been dumped due to access issues: not being able to get tankers into properties due to floodwaters and condition of some of the roads and landslips,"
he said.

A man wearing a nice green and yellow shirt stands in front of cattle trucks at the saleyards.

A fleet of fishing vessels in a boat harbour.

A man wearing a blue shirt and cap stands in a flooded rice crop.

A man standing in a flooded rice crop with storm clouds hovering.

A man and woman both dressed in blue stand in front of damaged macadamia trees.

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