• PHOTO: CSIRO researcher Steve Henry. Photo: GRDC (This is a 2019 news story)
RESEARCH is revealing new insights and understandings about mice in Australian broad acre cropping systems, especially in terms of their food preferences and aversion to bait.
The Grains Research and Development Corporation’s (GRDC) major mouse-related research, development and extension program has shown that mice prefer cereals over lentils, background food significantly affects consumption of bait and strategic use of bait is more effective than frequent use of bait.
CSIRO researchers have been undertaking bait . . .
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