Things have never looked so grim and so desperate as they are here in Australia at the moment. The East coast and far north are enjoying beautiful rain in the wet season but the wet has not gone inland as hoped. We now have the worst drought ever recorded. The land affected covers over 45% of the interior and it starts just 200 miles in from the coast. The farmers are now shooting their breeding stock and suffering horrific depression, many of these great men are committing suicide. They have borrowed over $500K to feed there stock in hope of rain to begin growing pasture but none has come. To give you some perspective of the area involved, Australia is the same size as the US. There is no water, no feed, no rivers, no lakes. It costs from $1000 to $2000 per day for each farmer to have feed trucked in for what animals are still able to stand. The Government has just begun to give handouts but it is too little too late. To see these heroic people continuing to struggle to keep going reduces us to tears. Without the farmers, there is no food, Period! None of us (Australians) want to see meat and wheat imported from China or South America. No-one knows or can offer any info as to when the drought will break. By the time is does, many men and women will be lost. To transport the animals to the sale yards costs more than what they are worth. It's a vicious cycle of no returns. This is enough said, it's too saddening to continue. If you are a man or woman of prayer, please pray for Australia.
Kody