A photo of a wheat field studded with a neat line of holes caught Professor Peter Banks’ eye,sparking a research project that could halt mice in their tracks.
When cane growers in the north Queensland farming town of Ingham noticed their crops suddenly started falling over,they knew they had a serious problem.
Record rainfall across the state is taking an enormous toll on rural landholders in NSW. And the mouse plague might not be entirely done with,either.
The mouse plague in the state’s central west is causing chaos at a prison.
While Pontius Pilot is cleared for take off.
The NSW government has announced a $100 million support package to farmers after its original package was labelled by farmers as “an impractical and dysfunctional joke”.
Farmers across inland NSW are bracing for a long battle against the mouse plague with any lull during winter expected to be reversed once spring brings renewed food supplies as crops ripen.
A highly toxic poison being released to control the mouse plague could have serious effects on farm animals and wildlife but do little to curb the rodent explosion.
NSW Farmers says the state government needs to offer immediate assistance to plague-affected communities.
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Mice plagues,such as the one ravaging parts of inland NSW,could become a thing of the past if scientists succeed in modifying the genes of the rodents so that populations crash before they can take off.