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A tractor is pictured on a dry hill in regional Victoria with some hay being unrolled

A man wearing a green shirt and wide brimmed hat leans, smiling, in front of a pen of sheep.

A man stands in front of a herd of white cattle

A man stands pointing to the left with a orange rod in his hand

A man in a red shirt and hat leaning on a metal fence at an auction.

"Everyone is pretty relieved, a lot of people are running around putting in seed and crop and trying to make it grow and make the most of it."

"Unfortunately we can't squeeze the cloud — as much as we would like — to wring out as much moisture as we can,"
he said.
map showing areas of Australia experiencing low rainfall in past 23 months

Brown paddock with no green grass, blue sky and dry round dam with no water in it

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