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Milk prices to rise after floods and drought hit dairy land

Maxim Shanahan

Dairy farmers will need a higher milk price to recover from floods in northern NSW that have wiped out livestock and farm infrastructure and devastated pastures that had only just been sown for the new season.

Five people died in the floods and more than 30,000remained cut off by floodwaters on Sunday, after days of rainfall left towns inundated, many of them barely four years after record floods hit the region in 2021.

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Maxim Shanahan is a professional services reporter at the Australian Financial Review. Email Maxim at max.shanahan@nine.com.au

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