Word: queenslanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million sheep and 14 million cattle that have been left high and dry on 74,000 ravaged farms. Some farmers are selling $20 sheep for as little as 10?. Others, trying to keep their stock, are buying hay at five times the regular price. Ranchers in southwest Queensland have sent some 350,000 sheep to healthier pastures in the north; in Victoria and South Australia, hardened farmers with tears in their eyes have shot more than 100,000 aging animals they had bred for years. Sums up Cattleman Geoff McLeod: "We have got the backside out of our trousers...