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Low take-up of north Queensland flood relief prompts questions about offering debt to get out of crisis SatSaturday 13 FebFebruary 2021 at 2:26am The Federal Government is trying to work out why north Queensland flood relief was not taken up. ( Print text only Cancel Key points: The Federal Government is trying to work out why less than a quarter of the money released after the 2019 floods has been taken by graziers Professor Bruce Chapman says governments should rethink offering farmers more debt The Cloncurry Shire mayor says little rain after the floods is the main reason why producers are not taking up the grants ....
What it was six years ago. there s farm debt is at near record levels. farm bankruptcies are going up. all of this stuff that you ve been talking about creates an enormous amount of uncertainty. when we talk about trump and trade and china, we sometimes forget that this is a president that is also offended the leaders of a lot of other major markets around the world. starting with mexico, with canada, with the eu, with japan. you just go around the world and there have been disparaging comments made about leaders and about people and these are folks that farmers sell our products to. we re enormously dependent on them so it isn t just about china. it s about our reputation around the world and the fact that we re losing markets and it s hurting our economy. mr. johnson, i am sure though you and the farmers you represent have heard the president on the trail at his ....
Doing everything they can to stay a step ahead of a disaster that scientists say is coming fast if action is not taken. our chief climate correspondent bill weir is in iowa. we have a very, very wet spring, and too much rain to plant. justin jordan is among the millions of american farmers living on an emotional roller coaster that only seems to go down. so this corn is almost two feet shorter than it normally is. thanks to a bizarro spring, he s looking at a 30% drop in yield. this is between helplessness and stress is what it kind of feels like, so but you just do what you can with what you have to work with. at least he has a crop. too many farmers lost everything to epic floods and even the lucky ones are losing sleep over fear of an early frost, and trade wars and the highest farm debt in a generation and on top of it all comes the latest alarming report from the ipcc ....
we had a very, very wet spring. too much rain to plant. too much rain to plant. reporter: justin jordan is among the millions of american farmers living on an emotional roller coaster that only seems to go down. so this corn is almost two feet shorter than it normally is. reporter: thanks to a bizarro spring, he s looking at a 30% drop in yield. it s a feeling of helplessness and stress is kind of what it feels like. but you just do what you can with what you have to work with. reporter: at least he has a crop. too many farmers lost everything to epic floods. and even the lucky ones are losing sleep over fear of an early frost and trade wars and the highest farm debt in a generation. and on top of it all comes the latest alarming report from the ipcc, which finds that growing food from india to iowa will only get harder as the climate gets harsher. we re going to see by mid-century by current ....