When the levee breaks: burrows from mouse plague cause trouble for flood-hit NSW farmers

Floods across eastern Australia have reduced mouse numbers but the recent plague left some properties exposed to inundation

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As flood waters move through New South Wales, farmers are finding their levees have been compromised by holes and burrows left by mice at the height of the mouse plague.

Richard Heath, the executive director of the Australian Farm Institute, said the tunnels and nests created by mice are particularly problematic during wet weather.