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.