Late rain stumps farmers

Good rain on the Darling Downs has farmers shaking their heads, saying it is unusual for this time of year.

There have been widespread falls and it is still raining steadily at many places on the Downs.

80-year-old farmer Geoff Fearnside says he thought he knew something about the weather, but now he is not so sure.

"I had some criteria that I lived by for a lifetime and none of them now with this global warming are worth talking about, they're non-existent, " he said.

"Normally we get rain in March, April and then some in June, well that didn't happen."

- ABC

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