Emergency permit allows farmers battling Australian mouse plague to use double-strength bait
Written by Australian Associated Press
Farmers in New South Wales welcome move but ask the state government to help pay for eradication efforts
Farmers fighting the eastern Australia mouse plague have been granted permission to use bait that is twice as toxic as normal poison – but they say they need government help to pay for it.
Communities are facing a horror mouse plague with the rodents running rampant across large tracts of inland NSW and southern Queensland, destroying crops and causing significant damage to stored hay and grain.
Related: 'You can't escape the smell': mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern Australia
The smell is horrific. You can pick up all the mice you see but there is always more.
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