Golf Ball-Sized Hail Thwarts Farmers Anticipating Bumper Harvest

Golf ball-sized hail thwarts farmers anticipating bumper harvest

A hailstorm sweeps through Victoria's Mallee, smashing thousands of hectares of crops on the brink of a bumper harvest.

Region counts the cost

GOLF ball-sized hailstones have battered crops around Quambatook, leaving farmers facing devastating losses just weeks before harvest. While Swan Hill escaped relatively unscathed, parts of Gannawarra Shire bore the brunt of severe thunderstorms that swept across north-west Victoria on Monday. Quambatook farmer Gregor Knight feared one paddock alone, covering between 150 and 200 hectares, had […]