Agricultural Pest Control

Authorities will investigate why 78 birds were found dead or dying in a wheatbelt town, with locals speculating the cause could be related to mouse baits. 

Scientists are using rabbit IVF and gene-editing technology to crash Australia's feral rabbit population by spreading infertility through female rabbits.

The fast spread of pest eleven-armed seastars has fishers, along with researchers, concerned.

A new study into dingo DNA has found many animals previously considered to be purebred actually have domestic dog genetics.

The Victorian Fisheries Authority wants to host a carp virus trial, but the federal government says it needs regulatory approval, which will delay research. 

Mice in their millions are eating grain crops, destroying food, and invading houses. Here's how it all started.

Mice fill seeding bins as WA farmers try to plant the 2026 crop.

A South Australian landowner has spotted elk on her property, outside containment lines of deer farms. There are no known established wild elk herds in this state. 

Feral rabbits are causing damage on farms and in towns, but biological control research has been delayed by funding woes.

A lack of clarity on the South Australian government's position on gun control reform has caused a downturn in revenue for retailers. 

A severe mouse plague in the farming town of Morawa overwhelms homes, businesses and farms, prompting urgent calls for government assistance amid growing health concerns and rising economic losses.

Swarms of locusts in South Australia are not likely to reach outbreak levels, according to experts, with potential El Niño weather conditions forecast. 

Almost 3 tonnes of the antibiotic florfenicol were used at one Tasmanian salmon farm lease in just two months, with information on its use across eight other sites yet to be released to the public by authorities.

Multiple locust swarms in South Australia's Riverland region have put farmers and authorities on alert, prompting the South Australian Plague Locust Commissioner to send surveying teams to the region.

Photos show a kangaroo moments before being rescued from a dam in Central West NSW, after it became bogged in mud while searching for water in an increasingly barren landscape.  

An organic pesticide developed to protect beneficial insects has been found to be effective on one of the cotton industry's worst soil diseases.  

A predator-proof fence at a Victorian farm is helping endangered species recover while proving conservation and agriculture can successfully co-exist.

Farmers and researchers notice a rise in bicoloured weevils feeding on cotton crops in the Northern Territory.

A grapevine virus known in China and Japan that affects plant growth and productivity has been detected in Australia for the first time in Victorian, Queensland and South Australian table grapes.

As if the cost of diesel and the lack of fertiliser were not enough, South Australia's farmers are also facing the prospect of a mouse plague.