Tablelands irrigators nervous wait for new water year

Irrigators face a nervous wait for the new water year, after dam-replenishing rainfall failed to fall in Tinaroo Dam this past wet season.  With the far north’s wet all but over, the level of Tinaroo Dam – Queensland’s oldest large irrigation storage – sits at a precarious 50.9 per cent.

NZ: Bay’s horticultural industries licks its wounds after cyclones

The impact of Cyclone Cook and former Cyclone Debbie could be felt for “years to come” by the Bay of Plenty’s leading horticulture industries.  Avocado and kiwifruit growers are cleaning up after bearing the brunt of the two extreme weather events which tore trees from the ground and flooded orchards throughout the Bay this month.