Farmers in north-west NSW race against time as wall of flood water heads their way

Farm crop losses due to widespread flooding exacerbated by the rising cost of fertiliser, fuel and herbicides

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The Collarenebri farmer Will Ricardo has been working around the clock to strip his canola but says it is a race against time as a wall of water" is heading his way from Moree.

We'll probably get half of it off and the rest will probably just float away with the flood water," Ricardo says.

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