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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Catie McLeod

‘It’s not panic-buying’: farmers defend stockpiling as regional Australia bears brunt of fuel crisis

The wheat harvest gets under way on a property in regional New South Wales, Australia
‘If you don’t have the fuel, you’re immediately in trouble’: distributors say farmers started bringing their diesel orders forward when the US and Israel bombed Iran. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Rural fuel distributor Paul McCallum hopes the worst is over.

At the start of the month, as fuel prices surged after the US and Israel bombed Iran, farmers started bringing their diesel orders forward, requesting “a boisterous but not over the top” 1.5m litres from his company, Inland Petroleum.

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