Bait battle takes to the skies in Western Australia

Shannon Beattie
September 18 2021 - 12:00pm
Aerial services have been in hot demand this year with farmers using them to bait for mice when they have been unable to get onto wet paddocks. Photo: Reagan Kau, Sierra Turipa Aviation.
Aerial services have been in hot demand this year with farmers using them to bait for mice when they have been unable to get onto wet paddocks. Photo: Reagan Kau, Sierra Turipa Aviation.

PLANES across Western Australia's graingrowing regions have taken to the skies far more than usual, with farmers using them in an attempt to get the growing mouse plague under control via aerial baiting.

Shannon Beattie

Shannon Beattie

Journalist

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