Lambing on dirt: Farmer speaks out on drought crisis

Maindample farmer Vaughan Semler says he’s never seen conditions this dry in northeast Victoria.

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00:00Hi I'm Vaughan Semler from Main Damble, North East Victoria. We've been part of a

00:06third generation farm here. We've never ever in our time, in our grandparents

00:13time, seen it as dry as this. We are feeding sheep now which are lambing and

00:18lambing onto dirt. Normally it's green grass, rolling green grass, fat lambs.

00:24We've nearly run out of hay supplies for our cattle. We're struggling to find hay

00:31to support the stock and it's unbelievable that we cannot be included in

00:41drought support in any way at all.