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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with Jeremy Zakis of NSW about the Australian unpredictable climate in an El Nino year with climate change much in the news -- and a surprising event for the despairing cattle stations expecting heat and drought and a

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with Jeremy Zakis of NSW about the Australian unpredictable climate in an El Nino year with climate change much in the news -- and a surprising event for the despairing cattle stations expecting heat and drought and a severe drop in prices because of necessary culling. Bucketing rainfall!

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This is John Batcher, an excerpt from a conversation with Jeremy Zackett's in New South Wales about

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El Nino and good news, not just bad news, there's heat, there's cyclones, there's enormous rainstorms, but the expectation for cattle in Australia was extremely

0:49.0

dire because of El Nino bringing dry and hot weather, unable to keep the herd alive.

0:55.8

Culling required, except the rains came.

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And what that means is not only is the cattle rancher satisfied but also the Australian

1:06.3

economy is satisfied and steak runneth over. Here's Jeremy Zakk is to describe the

1:12.4

surprise of surprises in an El Nino year where everything is not predicted and yet

1:20.6

Well John this is a great story while they had to cold their herd because literally when you get a drought here in Australia, there's no feed for the animals.

1:28.0

You can't feed them, you can't rear them, you cannot sell your cattle. But what's happened with all the flooding is there is so much

1:33.8

feed around, there's so much stock that the cattle industry is now booming. It's actually growing,

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they're breeding like nothing else. In fact, they're breeding at levels that are higher than last year when we knew

1:44.6

there was going to be rain. So what's actually happened is that all the cattle that we

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