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Is such farming fine when there's no rain about? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dairy

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'rain about?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'is such farming fine when there's no' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'fine' could be 'ai' (resembles A1, informal term for top quality) and 'ai' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'dry' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for dairy that I've seen before include "Business supplying milk and its products" , "Type of farm" , "Business supplying milk etc" , "Milk processing room" , "milk supplier" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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