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HAPPY HALLOWEEN-ING The region’s young people were out “trick or treating” – or simply dressing up for the night – for Halloween this week. Ploughman’s Rest Tavern Wongarbon turned into a Little Shop of Horrors for their spooky Halloween Disco. Pictured are Blake Wilson, Blake Lambourn, Millie Walker and Mason Wilson. See inside for more pics. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/KEN SMITH
Rain disrupts winter harvest and summer plantings By JOHN RYAN JASON HARTIN is a long-time stock and station agent and while he says the recent wet season has plenty of challenges, most people on the land have the longer-term outlook to remain positive. “We had a three-year drought, then we had a very good year and everyone tried to forget about the drought, then we had a second wet year and now we’re having an extremely wet year, peoples’ spirits are amazingly still good,” Mr Hartin told Dubbo Photo News. “The worst thing is that our winter cereal crops are going to be very
hard to harvest, we’ve got minimum summer cropping happening at the moment because it’s too wet, as in cotton and sorghum. “Our livestock is still going very, very well on the whole, the cattle job is booming but our sheep industry is struggling a bit because sheep just do not like the wet weather.” Mr Hartin says mud is always better than dust and says among his clients and the many country people he talks to, they understand that if you’re in the farming game you need to be able to take the big wets along with the extended dry times. “People are in the industry for a
reason, they’re passionate people, our farmers, and they’ll just pick the ball up and keep running, the optimism is there, it’s still good. “The rural economy is ticking along, we just had a small correction on land at the moment, we couldn’t get enough of it six or eight months ago, it’s just had a small correction but your good properties are still selling very well, people are trying to justify what they’re paying because of the minimum income this year, but if they want a place, they’ll obtain the money and buy it. “If you’re involved in the rural industry, it’s still better than living in the towns.”
Hartin Schute Bell's Jason Hartin says despite the challenges faced by such a wet season, farmers and graziers are mostly optimistic about the rural industry. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS
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