Mining the wind drought-proofs some Broken Hill farmers

By Julie Power
Updated November 9 2017 - 8:18pm, first published 8:12pm

Droughts come regularly to outback Broken Hill, killing sheep, burning profits and carving farmland into craters. But the wind is constant, said local farmer Greg Lawrence, sitting on a rocky and gusty hill that only a feral goat could love.

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