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Mice baiting ramps up as farmers attempt to prevent plague numbers

For the first time since 2011 a farm in south-west New South Wales is baiting for mice and a plane has been called in to help get the job done.

Daniel Linklater from Trentham Cliffs Station, near Mildura, said his family is 70 per cent through sowing and they now needed to go back and aerial bait the paddocks they have already been through.

""It seems that they like the legume stubble, more than the cereals. I'm not sure why that is or if there's any science to that," he said.

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