Pasture available for use by livestock brought from areas affected by drought.
several properties are transporting their stock to relief country
Example sentencesExamples
- The relief country was overstocked, and some losses ensued as the animals returned to their original pastures.
- Relief country was not available for starving stock.
- If relief country can be found, stock routes are short of feed and trucking difficulties are accentuated.
- How often has this district been used as relief country?
- The extension of our present lines will allow the transport of sheep to relief country.
- Drought compels the immediate removal of 5 million sheep from the eaten-out plains to relief country in the hills.
- Relief country was becoming increasingly difficult to secure.
- He reported that two days previously he had brought in 28 head of cattle from relief country.
- Northwestern graziers would prefer to bring feed to their stock than remove them to relief country.
- There's a rebate on stock returning from relief country to which they may have been driven by road.