A farmer in South Australia fed his sheep onions because of a lack of feed due to dry weather. Some time ago there were reports that farmers had no choice but to feed the cattle watermelon.
About an hour and 40 minutes north of Adelaide, Sutherlands, Graneiddock (Grantley Doecke) fed hundreds of tons of onions to sheep on his farm.
He said he had never seen this place so dry in his life.
"We had 5 inches of rain last year, of which there was 2 inches (50.8 mm) in January, so there was 3 inches (76.2 mm) of rain for the rest of our time," he said.
"We have only 41 millimeters of rain so far this year, and it doesn't look like it will rain again soon."
Doc bought onions from a chat with a friend in a church in Tea Tree Gully. 'someone heard someone had an unsold batch of onions to deal with,' he said.
He said his sheep did not eat the onions for the first week, but slowly accepted the next week.
"I was lucky to be able to meet this opportunity at the right time."
Waiting for rain
Other farmers in the north-central town of Burra and Sutherlands told ABC it was the driest period of their lives for everyone.
Simon Schmidt (Simon Schmidt), a farmer at Worlds End, says he and his 78-year-old father are now drier than ever in the memory of him and his 78-year-old father.
"the ewe has just left the lamb. They must survive. "
"you can put all the hay and grain in their stomachs, but in the end, nothing is better than green feed."
Schmidt says he usually starts sowing in the first week of April.
However, this year he only began in the third week of April, because of the lack of Rain Water, he reduced the planting plan by the end of May.
For farmers, the problem is not only that Rain Water is not much this year, but that there was little rain last year.
Daniel (Daniel Jenke), a farmer in eastern Eudunda, says rainfall in the area is usually around 300 millimeters a year.
He hopes this year is better than last year, but so far, only about 70 mm Rain Water.
Hoping for attention.
Both Juncker and Schmidt say they want politicians to come and see how dry it is.
"they have to come out and take a look at the reality," Mr Jenke said.
Recently, the national focus has been on drought in New and Kunzhou.
However, Schmitt said parts of South Australia are also in drought.
"all I heard on the radio was drought in New and Kunzhou, but it was everywhere," he said.