Source: Chris Mccullough, Producer.com, August 2, 2018
It took them awhile to catch on, but Michael Sweeney’s cattle are now eating the watermelons, rind and all.
Prolonged drought in eastern Australia has forced the price of hay up threefold, leaving livestock farmers facing huge bills to feed their cattle and sheep.
In some parts of New South Wales, farmers are shipping in hay from hundreds of kilometres away, even from Western Australia, just to get their livestock some feed.
However, one farmer is using a different approach to keep his cattle nourished by feeding them watermelons as a supplement.
