00:03I'm Andrew Lay, I'm a dairy farmer at Murribut in Northern Victoria.
00:07I'm on a family farm with my wife and my parents.
00:13Our children have gone away for a few years, they'll probably come back, hopefully.
00:19So the biggest impact for us at the moment is the price of water, temporary.
00:25We buy a third of our water temporary at times and with the impact of the water buybacks
00:32and the water policies over the years, there seems to be less water for us to buy out of the
00:40pool.
00:43If the government keep buying water like that, it's going to make it harder and harder.
00:47An example last year is we had 100% allocation on the Murray system in Victoria
00:51and water peaked at around $450,000, $500,000.
00:55So the impact on us is horrendous at $200,000 or $300,000 for our business.
01:02We employ 8 or 9 people so that makes it harder for us to grow our business
01:07or even sustain our business to those sort of things.
01:09Thanks.
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