Salvage plan for Pilbara crop project

Mal Gill
Updated March 10 2016 - 12:12pm, first published February 7 2016 - 4:00am
Water Minister Mia Davies (third left) and Agriculture Minister Ken Baston (far right) inspect the Woodie Woodie irrigation project on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in March last year, soon after it started.
Water Minister Mia Davies (third left) and Agriculture Minister Ken Baston (far right) inspect the Woodie Woodie irrigation project on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in March last year, soon after it started.

URGENT negotiations last Thursday may have salvaged a Pilbara irrigated fodder project threatened by the closure of a mine supplying water.

Mal Gill

Mal Gill

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Wool and dairy writer for Farm Weekly.

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