Mouse plague in Aus....... what a mess.

Bury the Trash

Bury the Trash

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cows sh#t me to tears said:
Yet you allowed cattle to eat chickens and crap meal causing mad cow disease...
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there was alsorts wasnt there.
like the lead in cake caper contaminated in ships hold
or like foot and mouth ds. that came in from abroad

about then or therafter farm assurance schemes ramped up here to try and sort it,/improve public 'perception' well better fit they looked at feed companies ration menu, as theres gm stuff in it from abroad which were not allowed to do, or maybe all them inspectors would be better employed at the docks /airports to watch for illegal meat/food importing :banghead:

but no, instead it came back/comes back on us here the primary producer we have to pay for others crap.

and no i dont buy feed just on price,never have thats if i do buy it, as most of the time i grow my own (given half a chance ) then i know exactly whats in it.
 
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Dead Rabbits

Dead Rabbits

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7610 super q said:
And we are told on a regular basis other countries produce is of a similar standard to ours.
Yeah, right.
Hope I don't end up with the crusty bits off the top for breakfast....:wtf:

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Crusty bits are just the chaff and what not from combining. It would have been a covered pile. Fairly recent thing to cover piles though and no requirement that I’m aware of. You are paid on how it samples and that’s it.
 
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sahara

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I also have no experience of a plague, but I am reminded of a conversation with my Grandmother when doing a school project.

Following her husband who was working as a Mining Engineer, my grandmother lived and worked all around the world just after WW11, in some unusual and odd ball countries, (as a result my mother was born in Bolivia!).

One such place was in the mountains in the Deserts of the Sinai Peninsula. I remember her telling me how over a few months and with a lot of work she had cultivated a garden outside her house in the mine compound, and was proudly eating the fresh fruit & veg that she had grown.
She then went on to tell me how one day she could hear what turned out to be a swarm of locusts. The noise got louder and louder until they arrived over the mine and then descended on her garden, which was effectively an oasis of green in the mountains, and in the space of less than an hour absolutely everything was eaten.

From the clarity of her description it was obviously something that she could not forget, even though the event would have been 40 odd years before. It also explained her obsession with making sure all her food cupboards were totally secure.

As @Av Gorritt , has said, From her description I think "rather bad" would be a classic British understatement of a quite frankly traumatic experience.
 
cows sh#t me to tears

cows sh#t me to tears

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Something probably lost on the vast majority on here, is that it doesn't stop at the farm gate. Or down the paddock.
Try finding them through your house....

And. Not limited to farms either. Most people in all the surrounding towns are finding them as well.

Last plague they were directly responsible for burning 3 houses down in our region. Chewed on electrical wiring. 2 were in a town.
 
kiwi pom

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snipe said:
It’s what the customer wants for Uk grain but not for imported. That is whats wrong. I was talking to a very reliable buyer at a mill and they told me they have been told to turn a blind eye to any ergot in imported wheat as there is no replacement for it if they reject it.
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I know, life's not fair and full of double standards, you just have to get over it.

7610 super q said:
I only produce animal feed. It has to meet RT standards to sell to local mills. I am not allowed to store it in open fronted sheds with rodents running all over it. Different standards. End of.
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Plenty do though despite being RT, even if its only short term. As long as the farm passes inspection on the day it's all good.
It is why a lot of countries store their grain in silos or bins, to keep the weather and rodents out.
 
Steel

Steel

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It probably 15 years since the last grasshopper plague too.
They ate a bit of my rice as it was the only green paddock at the time, other than my lawn.
They ate my lawn to the ground then left. I watered it and the paspalum came back. It got to about 2 inches tall and the hoppers came back and ate it to the ground again.
I watered it again, but that time everything died. I replanted kikuyu runners to grow a lawn again. I now have a beautiful kikuyu lawn which is heaps better than Paspalum.
 
Doc

Doc

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kiwi pom said:
Plenty do though despite being RT, even if its only short term. As long as the farm passes inspection on the day it's all good.
It is why a lot of countries store their grain in silos or bins, to keep the weather and rodents out.
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This is 100% correct. Indeed, I know of several dairy farms who use open bunkers which are operational on RT inspection day.
No one bats an eye. It’s stock feed.
I don’t think they should either as it seems fine for the other 364 days.
Of course the expensive in parlour cake gets blown into a silo but the spuds, soda grain, beets, brewers grains or Trafford gold doesn’t.
Stop kidding yourselves, or trying to kid those who don’t know the crack here.
 

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