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Mice numbers cause cropping concerns

Mice numbers cause cropping concerns

Story Added : 19th May 2011

During 2010, severe mouse damage on the central and western Eyre Peninsula in South Australia at sowing caused average losses during crop establishment of $20–$40 million, with average yield losses of 30 per cent in badly affected crops.

Even at less than plague proportions, losses Australia-wide from mice eating crops, stored grain and damaging electrical wiring could reach and estimated $100 million a year.
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