Water, a CQ game-changer

IS
Updated September 22 2015 - 1:09pm, first published April 23 2015 - 3:00am
Three generations of farming: Greg Hutchinson, his father David and daughter Heidi. Building their own off-stream water storage transformed their family business, which produces cotton, wheat and chickpeas along the Dawson River, Moura.
Three generations of farming: Greg Hutchinson, his father David and daughter Heidi. Building their own off-stream water storage transformed their family business, which produces cotton, wheat and chickpeas along the Dawson River, Moura.

CENTRAL Queensland is already an agricultural powerhouse valued at more than $1 billion, but imagine if more water from the Fitzroy River Catchment area could be captured and stored.

IS

Livestock editor for Queensland Country Life.

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