Australia Grapples With a Calamitous Year

The 2008 harvest was a challenge, but bigger problems may lurk down the road

By Tyson Stelzer

Mother Nature reached deep into her bag of nasty tricks in Australia in 2008, pulling out heat, frost, snow, drought, floods and even bushfires. (See the harvest report on page 14 for more details.) But.....

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