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Environment
Liv Casben

Farmer says 'it's all starting again' as dams run dry

Sheep and cattle farmer James Clarke beside one of his shrinking dams. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

At James Clarke's property on the southern tablelands of NSW, in what's regarded as a high rainfall area, the dams are running dry.

The beef and sheep farmer wants to destock, but with prices in both markets dropping dramatically in the past year, instead he's getting ready to sell his car to buy hay. 

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