Forbes floods: Hundreds of thousands of litres of milk go down the drain

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated September 30 2016 - 3:13am, first published 1:24am
Floods in Forbes have cut the main access to the town.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
Floods in Forbes have cut the main access to the town. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Colin Thompson with his Holstein Friesian cattle at his farm in Cowra.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
Colin Thompson with his Holstein Friesian cattle at his farm in Cowra. Photo: Wolter Peeters
NSW SES crews fill sand bags in preparation for expected further flooding.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
NSW SES crews fill sand bags in preparation for expected further flooding. Photo: Wolter Peeters

More than 300,000 litres of milk destined for supermarket shelves has been tipped out by farmers in central-western NSW as trucks struggle to get through to some of the country's largest dairy farms in a natural disaster zone.

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