00:00 Mud, sticks and debris.
00:05 We've got 330 hectares now under silt and some of the silt is up to 1200 millimetres
00:11 deep.
00:12 This far north Queensland cattle station flooded in December and the clean up will take years.
00:18 I anticipate that it's going to run very close to $2 million worth of damage plus loss of
00:23 production.
00:24 Right now, during the wet season, the cows still have grass to eat.
00:29 In a few months that will change.
00:31 We'll run into trouble a bit later as it dries off.
00:33 And no food means hard decisions.
00:36 We'll probably destock by around about 30%.
00:39 20 kilometres south, a vanilla farmer is wrestling with the closure of an access road.
00:44 We're on the Bloomfield track at the northern end of it.
00:47 He's reliant on the track so tourists can access his farm tours.
00:52 Last year was the first year we did the farm tours and we pretty much did about a third
00:56 of our entire income from those tours.
01:00 He wants it fixed as soon as possible.
01:03 On the other end of the Daintree rainforest, a lack of phone network has cut communications
01:08 for a tea farmer.
01:09 My biggest problem at the moment is I've got no phone line, which has been out I think
01:13 from three days after the cyclone.
01:15 And has cut his business.
01:16 I probably get five to ten phone orders a week, so I've lost all of them.
01:24 It's been hard.
01:28 The destruction in the Daintree is on a scale never seen before.
01:31 The farming losses here include livestock, fencing damage and produce, as well as the
01:36 broader infrastructure losses.
01:39 Locals here fear that it could be a year-long wait for all repairs to be complete.
01:43 Everyone's just a little bit tired.
01:47 But most people are pretty resilient up here and they'll strap their boots on and get it
01:52 all finished.
01:54 hard to get the job done.
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