PHOTO: The latest meeting of the National Mouse Group heard high mouse activity in Queensland. In NSW mouse numbers are not yet concerning. Photo: Peter Brown GRDC
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is cautioning farmers to keep mice population numbers low ahead of the breeding season.
“If you don’t do something about it now in autumn, you get into winter with high numbers of mice who start breeding from a high population base come spring,” CSIRO researcher Steve Henry said”.
“They’re not at the proportions of 2020/21 but if farmers start sowing their crop in mid-April, they’ll need to know what’s going on in their paddocks in terms of mice…