Climate change hits basin profits with 20% fall in 20 years

CLIMATE change is already impacting the profitability of agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin, according to Australia’s peak agriculture research body. David Galeano, assistant secretary at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), told the Murray-Darling Basin Authority conference this week dryland broadacre farming profits had taken a significant hit as a […]