Flood and drought savage Qld cattle industry...
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Boulia Shire Council
28 Feb 2019
Image: Two cattle walk in deep mud in flooded paddock near Richmond in north-west Queensland during heavy rainfall in early February 2019. (Supplied)
One state, one industry — but two very different stories this summer.
As flood decimated graziers in Queensland's northwest tally their losses a vast number of cattle producers in the rest of the state are entering their eighth year of drought.
While the Gulf country was deluged with record rainfall - much of Queensland has received little or no rain at all over the past few months.