In your field: Marie Prebble - 'We've recorded just 74ml of rain in the past 14 weeks'

I am pleased to be hiding from the heat and catching up on office work. A week of 30degC heat (and more) and not a drop of rain has parched already severely dry ground and there is not a bite of grass over most of the farm.

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In your field: Marie Prebble - 'We've recorded just 74ml of rain in the past 14 weeks'

I am pleased to be hiding from the heat and catching up on office work. A week of 30degC heat (and more) and not a drop of rain has parched already severely dry ground and there is not a bite of grass...

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