The severe hailstorm at Comboyne wiped out the avocado and blueberry crop at Ticoba Farm.
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Farmer Ernst Tideman said that hailstones the size of 50 cent coins began pelting down at about 5.30pm on Tuesday evening, September 17.
They hit the trees, removing bark from many of the trees, and bruising avocados so badly that he can't sell them.
"In value $500,000, and the flowers for the next season were already on the trees, so the crop for next year has been wiped out too," said Mr Tideman.
He and his wife, Penny have lived in Comboyne, and they, plus locals who lived there all their lives have never seen anything like the hailstorm that hit them.
"The netting on the blueberry crop has been ripped and the cables holding it have been broken, so it all has to be replaced. We employ five people and that will have to change now.
"The insurance premiums for hail are so high that you just have to take the risk. That's farming. I always say I don't gamble - I'm a farmer. It's terrible. All your work in one year is destroyed in half an hour."
But Ernst says he will re-build.
"I'm too young to retire," he said with a rueful smile.
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