An Increase in mice sightings on farms have farmers worried and vigilant as years of an agriculture boom have been a “recipe for a really good mouse plague,” says NSW Farmer Richard Bootle.
“A little early to predict a full plague, what we’re seeing and what we do see after a number of good years like we had … a lot of grain produced, a lot of grass seeds, and that’s the recipe for a really good mouse plague,” Mr Bootle said.
“They start in the fields, then they eat out fields, then they hit our infrastructure, sheds or silos, then into houses … everything gets eaten,” he told Sky News Australia.
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