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Job opportunity! Applied Vertebrate Pest Research Scientist role in rodent management. The role will focus on understanding and developing vertebrate pest management strategies in broadacre and intensive agricultural systems.

Apply now: jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2…

Noticed any mice?
Growers are reminded and encouraged to monitor and log mouse activity this season through the free Steve Henry website (1) or the FeralScan Pest Mapping app (2).
1: bit.ly/49bDhYt
2: apple.co/3IUeT2G

On and ready to rock and roll

📢New publication by AWMS members Nikki Van de Weyer, Wendy Ruscoe, Peter Brown, Lyn Hinds & their colleagues exploring space use and home range size in house mice in Australia. Read their paper in Ecology and Evolution: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

Grain growers across Australia are being urged to check paddocks for mouse numbers and record mouse activity as part of a national campaign aimed at early detection and effective control ahead of this year’s winter crop: bit.ly/3x1kr8N | Steve Henry

Already talking pre-harvest prep!
⬛ How is your machinery maintenance going?
⬛ What are your paddock conditions?
⬛ How is the weather playing out in your region?

Thanks to the 400+ growers, advisers, researchers, students, media & others who joined us in Adelaide this week for the 2024 Grains Research Update. It was great!

📰Read the papers bit.ly/3OC12By
👉Register for an Update bit.ly/3Hvq81Y

#GRDCUpdates

More grain in the bin = more dollars for Farmers.

By changing your harvest loss from 6% to a 1% in a 2t/Ha Barley, 1,000Ha program, could mean an extra $35,000 in your pocket.

Our question is, why not?

An interesting morning seeing how the CSIRO team collect mouse data on the Adelaide plains.
Steve Henry in his natural habitat

Steve Henry Steve Henry outlines them importance of background food when implementing mouse baiting strategies - Adelaide #GRDCUpdates bitly.ws/3bjGj

I’m keen to chat to a couple more growers in NSW or Qld who have done something novel to spread mouse bait in the past few years for a GRDC project. We have some good ones from south and West so far - just need two more.appreciate any help with leads 🙏

It's with sadness that we recognise the recent passing of AWMS ‘founding father’ & 2nd president, Peter O’Brien. He made enormous contributions to AWMS over many years. Peter is shown below (right) with other former AWMS presidents, Jim Hone (left) & Graeme Caughley (middle). RIP

📢Publication alert! #AWMS member Andrea Byrom and her colleagues recently published a paper in the journal Conservation Letters arguing for the inclusion of house mice within the scope of the Predator Free New Zealand project: doi.org/10.1111/conl.1…

Great talk on her #PhD work (correlative study on inter-mice interactions, mouse populations and social behaviours to understand potential drivers of #mouse #plague ) by the rodent team's Nikki van den Weyer mouse 🐭 👍
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📢Publication alert: #AWMS members Wendy Ruscoe, Nikki Van de Weyer and their colleagues recently published a paper in the journal Pest Management Science describing the effects of agricultural practices on the abundance of introduced rodents in Australia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps…

Thanks Facey Group for your work on this project 🐭🐭

Graeme Sandral roger bolte Roy Hamilton GRDC GRDC North Rohan Brill Barry George Mudge Barry Haskins Greg Rebetzke Grassroots Agronomy Riverine Plains This is Maurie, don’t be a Maurie and miss the truck either as this provides a massive feed lot for mice as well

Despite low mouse activity reported around Australia, growers are being asked to remain vigilant and harvest cleanly to enhance future baiting effectiveness and increase on-farm profitability.

Resources: bit.ly/3ClpWgx
Full article: bit.ly/3u0YJjT

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