Crop variety key to resilience when it comes to floodplain farming.

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Updated July 4 2022 - 11:03pm, first published June 1 2022 - 7:00am
Multi-generational sugar cane producer Ross Farlow, Maclean, in a paddock of one-year old flood-affected crop.
Multi-generational sugar cane producer Ross Farlow, Maclean, in a paddock of one-year old flood-affected crop.

If there is a flood survivor on the far North Coast it is sugar cane, particularly older, ratooned crops however mortality did occur in younger plants.

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Jamie Brown

North Coast reporter

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