“Twenty years ago, if a local dairy farmer was in trouble, we would all chip in and help him out. Today the attitude is, let’s sit back and let him go under; one of us will get his farm, another his cattle and another his dairy. As a result, the once remarkable community life of rural areas is gone. The new economics of farming is tearing our communities apart.”That is how one farmer recently described the recent dramatic changes in rural Australia.An earlier generation or two of dynamic, commun…
