Ecologists say a lack of food in the city and long distances separating grain regions from urban areas mean an urban plague is “highly unlikely”.
When the cats have given up and the dogs are at risk of dying from eating rodent poison,farmers across inland Australia have had no choice but to improvise.
NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall says an emergency application has been lodged for “the strongest mouse poison in the world”.
Rodents are wreaking havoc across NSW’s food bowl,destroying crops and livelihoods and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.
Last time NSW had a mouse problem,it cost farmers more than $200 million in lost crops.