In 2019, cattle farmer Alistair Anderson was dealing with the 'devastating' loss of half his herd. Four years on, the 81-year-old's property is in the best condition he's seen it in more than a decade.
His attention shifted from feeding cattle during a drought to counting the losses, as half his herd died following a monsoonal trough."They died with their bellies full. It was just cold after the rain. I think pneumonia probably," Mr Anderson said.Four years on, as the 81-year-old prepares to transition the 37,000-hectare cattle station to his son Stephen, the property is in the best condition he has seen it in 12 years.
The dams might not be full, but the grass is green, and for the first time in a long time, Mr Anderson can turn his attention away from feeding his cattle and allow them to graze. “It’ll come again. You have just got to have a few dollars in the bank and you can handle it," he said. Flinders Shire Council Mayor Jane McNamara said there had been "good, beneficial rain" across much of the region.
As of December 2022, there were still three local government areas fully drought declared and two local government areas partly declared. "I always say it goes in decades. You will have a decade of good years, [then] you have a decade of bad years. We've just had our decade of bad years," Ms Curley said."The last year, we had a year similar to … 1973 where it rained practically every month. Storm rain [fell] into a really good season in 74.
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