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How effective is the Future Drought Fund four years on?

THE best time to fix your roof is when the sun is shining, former US president John F Kennedy once reportedly remarked.

Likewise, the best time to be working on drought “is when you’re not in drought,” Brent Finlay, chair of the Future Drought Fund, observed in an update on the fund’s peformance with Beef Central this week.

In keeping with that logic the Future Drought Fund was established by the previous Federal Government at the height of the last El Nino-influenced drought in 2018-19 with a view to helping farmers prepare for future droughts and to build resilience in…

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