Latest news on the NSW mouse plague that’s devastating farmers

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Mice in an oat storage shed on Mumble Peg farm, 45 minutes’ drive east of Warren in the Dubbo region of NSW. Picture: David Swift

NSW farmers have secured a victory in their battle against a devastating infestation of mice after pressuring the government into releasing $50 million in aid.

Grain grower Tracy Blackburn has been calling for the NSW Government to back a farmers’ mutual, which would provide farm income protection for broadacre farmers, to help the situation.

It comes after mice caused catastrophic yield losses in some NSW sorghum crops.

There were warnings in March that mice numbers in NSW were erupting and concerns were mounting over the upcoming winter crop sowing period.

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