WA'S big dry has been elevated to one level below "catastrophic" on a Department of Agriculture emergency scale. And in a sign of how bad the drought has become, one of the state's biggest farming equipment suppliers, Farm Power, was yesterday poised to be put in the hands of administrators.
The Agriculture Department's internal scale, from zero to four, is a barometer of how bad a natural disaster is and how devastating it will be on farmers, the environment and regional communities.
The record dry spell affecting half WA, including huge tracts of the Wheatbelt and the South-West, has been raised from level two to three.
A department spokeswoman said the category-three rating meant the big dry was "likely to cause severe and widespread impact on industry, the community or environment".
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