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Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Not my photo, but mice damage to newly planted crop. Yes, mouse bait was spread at the same time . . .
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Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
Not my photo, but mice damage to newly planted crop. Yes, mouse bait was spread at the same time . . . View attachment 959617
Is it possible to fallow your way out of danger, or is there just too much alternative food for that to work, given the time slot you have to work within.

We have heaps of them here too but hardly a plague, just the product of having a heap of grass when there is little of it about. We have a cat who is a good hunter, this morning she had 23 dead mice on the driveway which is a new PB
 

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
I get quite a bit of mouse damage on my apples while they are still on the tree, nothing more than natural population levels so plagues would be a complete disaster.
Had a surprising amount of voles over the last 12 months, anything you move has a load of them underneath. Haven't really done what you could call damage but they have taken bark off young apple trees and they have almost completely stripped it off the hedge in front of my house.
I'm surprised there are so many because there are plenty of owls, cats, birds of prey etc around here, and snakes for that matter.
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Beautiful old shed there , is it an old grain shed ?

naah, a wool shed

for shearing sheep, & storing wool bales

Windy Station was originally an AA Co ( google it ) place, one of the very first areas “settled” by white fellas in this part of the world, in the early / mid 1800’s

now a “family” owned property, of about 20,000 hectares. About half cropping, half beef

Originally it was much larger and it would have ALL been sheep. Didn’t start cropping this country till the 1960’s / 70’s
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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