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Growers opt for the cash
5 Sep 2007
Some horticulturalists along the Murray River and in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area are abandoning their crops in favour of profit from selling their water allocations. As prices for temporary water allocations top $1,000 a megalitre, growers are retaining just enough water to keep vines and trees alive, but not productive, and selling the rest. Some Victorian farmers who only receive a 5 per cent water allocation can't even do this, instead having to decide which plants to nurse through the drought, or whether to leave their farms entirely.
The Weekly Times, 5/09/2007
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