Gnawing anxiety

Australian grain growing regions are again under pressure from resurgent mice numbers, which could threaten the winter crop harvest over the coming months, according to the CSIRO and Grains and Research Development Corporation (GRDC).

For much of 2021, large grain growing areas of New South Wales, as well as parts of southern Queensland and northern Victoria, have been subjected to mice plagues, which have wreaked continual havoc on crops.

And still, reports of reviving mice numbers throughout the country’s entire