Mouse numbers likely to build again in Victoria and South Australia

Gregor Heard
August 23 2017 - 6:00pm
Mouse numbers are building again in South Australia and Victoria, with the Wimmera and Yorke Peninsula particular hot spots.
Mouse numbers are building again in South Australia and Victoria, with the Wimmera and Yorke Peninsula particular hot spots.

AUTHORITIES are warning that in spite of cold and rainy weather across Victoria and South Australia, areas impacted by the mouse plague earlier in the year will again be under severe pressure from the rodents come spring.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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