A year after Black Summer fires there s progress on pasture recovery for eastern Victorian farmers
AprApril 2021 at 4:00am
Farmers inspect pasture regrowth in a paddock at Butchers Ridge burnt by the Black Summer bushfires.
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Farmers in eastern Victoria are still working to restore lost pastures more than a year on from the Black Summer bushfires.
Key points:
The land may look green, but some pastures are still weed infested
It will take years to correct this balance
More than 1.5 million hectares were burnt in the fires, including 6,300 kilometres of fencing. Farmers in East Gippsland and the state s north-east lost 7,500 head of livestock.