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29 Aug 2007

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A farmer runs her hand through dry dirt in a wheat field near Griffith, 400km (249miles) north of Melbourne, August 22, 2007. A thin winter green carpets Australia's southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation's food bowl. To match feature AUSTRALIA-DROUGHT
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A farm worker hand prunes Merlot vines on a farm owned by Casella Wines near Griffith, 490km (305miles) west of Sydney, August 22, 2007. Grape shortages and severe price increases lie ahead without urgent rain to end a drought which has lasted years in Australia's interior and is intensifying. To match feature AUSTRALIA-DROUGHT/WINE

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