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Speaker 1: Five double a KNIGHTE with Matthew Pantellas. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: mice around the place, and the grain Producers of Essay

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Speaker 1: are warning about preparing for a well, we won't say plague,

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Speaker 1: but an increase in the numbers of mice. Brad Perry, CEO,

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Speaker 1: Grain Producers of Essay.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Brad, okay math you.

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Speaker 1: Obviously concerning so I mean potentially a plague. I suppose. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably a bit earlier to it called

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Speaker 2: a plague. I know that some like to jump to that,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, we're certainly putting the message out the grain

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Speaker 2: producers to be on the lookout. There was a SIRO

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Speaker 2: mouse report that gets done based on trapping happens out

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Speaker 2: on particular key sites on farm and that's noted a

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Speaker 2: substantial increase in some of those sites, particularly on the

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Speaker 2: Adelaide planes and your peninsula. So on the latest mouth

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Speaker 2: report from Syro it actually has I think most of

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Speaker 2: the other states don't have very low activity. Unfortunately, we

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Speaker 2: have increasing activities. So we certainly need to be on

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Speaker 2: the lookout.

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Speaker 1: What's the reason for it? Is it the rain we've

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Speaker 1: had that's I don't know, led to greater grain growth.

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Speaker 1: I think, well, you told me, I'm making stuff up.

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Speaker 2: No, it is a favorable weather condition for mouse breeding.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, at the sight of Malila they found thirty

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Speaker 2: percent I think it was a thirty percent hit rate

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Speaker 2: on pregnant female mice, and normally in the past it

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Speaker 2: has been about three to ten percent, so it's a

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Speaker 2: significant increase. But it's certainly to do with the favorable

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Speaker 2: conditions at the moment with a bit of rain around

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Speaker 2: and we've also had a bit of reshooting due to

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Speaker 2: the dry and then the late rain, and there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of hay, a lot of grain on the ground

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Speaker 2: that's ready to be bailed as serial hay. So you'd

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Speaker 2: probably noticed that if you're driving around, and that sort

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Speaker 2: of creates some good breeding conditions for mice.

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Speaker 1: What's the best What do farmers do to control them?

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Speaker 1: Is it just you know that bucket with the flip lid.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you catch them? How you deal with them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they baked, so farmers will bait for them

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Speaker 2: at the moment they use it's post fire that's used

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Speaker 2: and it's had a single strength application in the past

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Speaker 2: right across Australia when there's been mouse plagues. There's been

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Speaker 2: emergency permits to use a double strength of that mick

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Speaker 2: and that has been extremely effective in the past. But

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Speaker 2: I think the key thing is getting access to that

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Speaker 2: nice and early to get on top of the populations

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Speaker 2: if they do boom. I think it's a bit early

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Speaker 2: at the moment. But I have personally lived through a

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Speaker 2: mouse plague when I lived in the Riverland, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was absolutely horrendous. I wasn't a farmer at the time,

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Speaker 2: I was a general resident, but I remember, you know,

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Speaker 2: there were my seating for our walls. We had three

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Speaker 2: or four being caught in traps. I remember driving out

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Speaker 2: to some of the cropping country out at a place

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Speaker 2: called Brown's Well where I played footy, and we were

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Speaker 2: literally you just running over them as he drove out

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Speaker 2: there in cropping country. So we certainly don't want to

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Speaker 2: get to that. And yeah, hopefully we can get on

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Speaker 2: top of any populations before it gets to anywhere close

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Speaker 2: to play proportions, because it would be disastrous for everyone.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the farm machinery, for instance, which

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Speaker 1: costs a pretty penny, as we all have an idea about,

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Speaker 1: but they can eat through the wiring and everything else

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Speaker 1: to do with that too, let alone the grain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. The damage can be huge, I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: mice is severely underestimated, probably by those that understand less

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Speaker 2: about the industry. But the impact, yeah, phenomenal For such

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Speaker 2: a little pest. It can have a huge, huge impact

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Speaker 2: on machinery, store grain, the crops themselves. And yeah, just

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Speaker 2: from a pest point of view, Yeah, a real problem,

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Speaker 2: particularly if they start breeding up in numbers and they're

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Speaker 2: prolific breeders as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I love the fact there's a national mouse group.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a Mickey Mouse fan club.

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Speaker 2: It's certainly it's certainly a very serious affair.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no messing around in that group, and they

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Speaker 2: do a really good job monitoring mouse numbers right across Australia,

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Speaker 2: and I think it probably shows, yeah, how serious problem

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Speaker 2: it can be for not only grain producers, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: everyone in the community. You certainly don't want to have

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Speaker 2: a mouse played anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Near No, No, that's for sure. At least the snakes

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Speaker 1: will be happy, but I don't think the rest of

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Speaker 1: us will be well.

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Speaker 2: I think before there was yeah, from memory we had

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Speaker 2: we had it was locusts and mice from memory in

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Speaker 2: the riverland. So yeah, and then the snakes come and

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Speaker 2: you got everything else. But it's it's it's a domino effect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one attracts the other and the way we go.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Brad, thank you for your time tonight,

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Speaker 1: and let's hope it doesn't come to that. Yeah, get

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Speaker 1: the farmers onto it right now. Absolutely thanks having good

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Speaker 1: on your Thank you, Brad. Perry CEO Grame Producers Essay