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Wine producers warn future crops are at risk of smoke taint from hazard reduction burns
A year after many New South Wales winegrowers lost everything to smoke taint, they are now warning hazard reduction burns, which should protect them, could pose a new threat.
Key points:
- NSW Wine warns burns designed to prevent disastrous bushfires could affect wine
- Researchers say there’s little to no value in smoke-affected grapes
- Smoke taint cost the wine industry about $40 million after the 2019-20 bushfires
The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) called the just-ended bushfire danger period the “quietest fire season in a decade”.
La Niña conditions provided ideal conditions for prescribed burns.
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