Farm floods will hit food supplies and drive up prices. Farmers need help to adapt as weather extremes worsen

A flooded farm from the Loddon river in Serpentine, Victoria Luke Milgate

Some of Victoria’s most important agricultural regions are among the areas worst hit by severe floods inundating the state this week.

This may lead to food shortages and higher supermarket prices for milk, fruit, vegetables and other farm products. Indeed, about 20% of Victoria’s milk is produced in flood-affected regions, and millions of litres now may be lost.