June 2021
- Exclusive
- John Barilaro
NSW Nationals leader gives in to farm lobby group over mouse plague
After a month resisting demands for subsidies, John Barilaro has overruled his agriculture minister and offered farmers up to $10,000 each.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- Analysis
There’s not enough mice to deserve another farmer bailout
Notwithstanding a mouse plague generating lots of gross-out video footage, winter crops in NSW will be much bigger than the past-decade average.
- Aaron Patrick
Bumper crops worth $15b on cards despite mice plague
Rabobank says Australian farmers are on track to produce a whopper winter grain crop in the order of 43 million tonnes.
- Brad Thompson
May 2021
Farmers tackle mice at home and China at WTO
NSW Farmers says truck after truck is being turned away from ports because grain is contaminated with mice faeces and urine, amid increasing fears about the impact of the plague on export markets.
- Brad Thompson
Poison chalice for farmers overwhelmed by mice plague
Farmers in NSW have been hamstrung in the fight against the mice plague with their only chemical weapon too weak and now in short supply.
- Brad Thompson