For those with even the greenest of thumbs, keeping a backyard garden or front lawn alive when rain doesn't fall is a struggle. So how do Australian farmers plan to keep the country fed? According to the Bureau of Meteorology, it was the eighth-driest April on record with rainfall across grain, sheep and cattle heartlands in southern Australia well below normal. At 63 per cent below average, April rainfall across Western Australia was the lowest since 1994. Rural Newsletter Rural news in your inbox?
