Farmers are continuing to pressure the New South Wales Government to provide them with adequate support as the mouse plague shows no signs of slowing down.

The state's grain industry should have just wrapped up sowing a big winter crop.

But 40-percent of growers have reduced the area planted, by an average of 30 percent -- at a cost to the state of about a billion dollars.

Rural editor Eddie Summerfield caught up with New South Wales Farmers Vice President Xavier Martin

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Farmers are continuing to pressure the New South Wales Government to provide them with adequate support as the mouse plague shows no signs of slowing down.
The state's grain industry should have just wrapped up sowing a big winter crop.
But 40-percent of growers have reduced the area planted, by an average of 30 percent -- at a cost to the state of about a billion dollars.
Rural editor Eddie Summerfield caught up with New South Wales Farmers Vice President Xavier Martin
Subscribe to the National Rural News podcast: http://bit.ly/RuralNewsPodcast

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