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Climb on board and join us for this virtual climate bus tour.

Firstly today, we visit Wonthaggi dairy farmer Daryl Hoey who has moved 2,000 kilometres south over three separate moves, all because he's chasing more favorable conditions

Second stop we chat with Dale Grey, Seasonal Risk Agronomist with Agriculture Victoria who helped formulate five simple things that people needed to ask themselves about their farm to help farmers during the Millennium Drought. These five big questions can pertain to anyone's stage in life.

Five big questions

are you enjoying what you are doing?

can you sustain the effort?

is your family supporting what you are doing?

are you living a lifestyle that you are happy with?

have you enough to retire on?

Five big options

use tools/skills to remove income volatility

capture more profit along value chain

change and or diversify enterprise

change the capital base

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