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Re:Less rain, more wheat: How Australian farmers defied clim... by EdwardDiego on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:37PM (#44773054)
New Zealand did this in the 80s. Caused a lot of pain in the rural community, a bunch of bankruptcies, marriage failures and suicides as farming operations only sustainable because they were subsidised failed.

We now have a very internationally competitive agricultural sector, but yeah, getting there caused a lot of pain.

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