150 years ago the Chief Surveyor in South Australia, George Goyder, drew a line across the map to warn prospective farmers that cropping would not be sustainable north of the line due to the risk of droughts.
Following a decade of good rainfall in the 1870s, a wave of wheat farmers crossed the line and established small townships like Farina, 300km north of the line.
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