Enduring Hope

I’m exploring the enduring hope and tenacity of Australia’s primary producers. The men and women who continue through the good years and the bad, for a purpose bigger than themselves. Farming isn’t easy and is not always rewarding, especially in a sunburnt country that is experiencing the extremes of climate change.

The Dairy Farmer:
Chris is a dairy farmer outside Nowra, NSW. He wakes up at 3am most days to milk his cows before the sun comes up, usually finished in time to get his kids to school. Chris took over the family farm from his father Murray. The land is more than just grass and cows. It’s a family legacy, it’s the future for him and Murray’s grandsons. A few years ago a bad batch of feed poisoned 80 of Chris’s dairy cows. Sadly most of them died or needed to be put down. A nightmare situation for any farmer.