Water-reliant crops not right for our climate

IN recent weeks I have travelled along the Murray River both east and west. Why, in a climate such as ours, do we persist and allow such vast plantings of almonds and olives, when water is such a commodity? At what stage do we stop? When the Murray is a trickle? Or even worse, a […]

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