AGRIBUSINESS

Waves of prosperity and destruction

IT’S a tale of two coasts at the moment: one receiving wave after wave of widespread soaking rains to start the winter cropping season in the growing regions of Western Australia; and the other receiving wave after wave of an insidious mouse plague burdening every aspect of life for growers in New South Wales and Queensland.

Bushwhacker
 Bushwhacker says cropping conditions are ideal in the west while mice are providing big challenges in the east. Picture Mark Saunders.

Bushwhacker says cropping conditions are ideal in the west while mice are providing big challenges in the east. Picture Mark Saunders.

As tradition would have it, let's get the bad news out of the way first. Bushwhacker is hard pressed to think of any other single infestation or pest event that would have as dramatic an impact on the...

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