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Farmers are sounding the alarm that Australia is on the threshold of another mice plague, two years on from a vermin outbreak that overwhelmed the country. ....
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As the CSIRO warns how long the mice infestation will last, see the map that shows how quickly the plague spread from northern NSW to four states. ....
Animal activists PETA slammed for telling farmers not to kill mice during plague PETA said mice are looking for food to survive and shouldn t be robbed of right Some farmers have said they re unable to sleep and have lost close to $300,000 Today s Karl Stefanovic said PETA doesn t know about problems farmers face He said PETA idiots sit in offices and can t be bothered going to the farms ....
âIâm just at the end of my tether trying to hold it together ⦠but Scott, my partner, and I have other jobs and income, we can rebuild. There are people out there with a lot more riding on this.â One of those people is Ben Storer, a farmer from near Walgett, nearly 300kms north of Dubbo in north-west NSW. The mice wiped out a full 800 hectares of his sorghum crop and have caused upwards of $200,000 in damage. âWe never even stuck a [havester machine] into those fields⦠we didnât even touch it, the mice had just ripped through it,â he said. ....