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DUBBO, Australia: After surviving years of crippling drought, farmers in eastern Australia are locked in a months-long battle with hordes of mice that are pouring through fields and devouring hard-earned crops.
After fire and floods, Aussie farmers suffer devastating mouse plague
After surviving years of crippling drought, farmers in eastern Australia are locked in a months-long battle with hordes of mice that are pouring ...
After fire and floods, Aussie farmers suffer devastating mouse plague 168 DUBBO, Australia, June 14, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – After surviving years of crippling drought, farmers in eastern Australia are locked in a months-long battle with hordes of mice that are pouring through fields and devouring hard-earned crops. Farmer Col Tink uses a broom to skittle hundreds of roving mice toward a makeshift industrial trap — essentially a large tub of water where they drown. It is a brutally simple attempt to slow the plague that has engulfed his farm — near the rural town of Dubbo — and thousands of ...