‘Recipe for a really good mouse plague’: Mice infestation on NSW farms

An Increase in mice sightings on farms have farmers worried and vigilant as years of an agriculture boom have been a “recipe for a really good mouse plague,” says NSW Farmer Richard Bootle. “A little early to predict a full plague, what we’re seeing and what we do see after a number of good years like we had … a lot of grain produced, a lot of grass seeds, and that’s the recipe for a really good mouse plague,” Mr Bootle said. “They start in the fields, then they eat out fields, then they hit our infrastructure, sheds or silos, then into houses … everything gets eaten,” he told Sky News Australia. “It really is no fun at all … we go from drought to flood then into a mouse plague.”