Mice plague ravaging farms in NSW and southern Queensland, scurries south to Victoria

As the worst mice plague in decades continues to ravage farms across New South Wales and southern Queensland, large numbers of mice are travelling south and making their way into Victoria.

Don Hearn owns a beef cattle farm and vineyard just east of Barham, in New South Wales near the Victorian border.

He said over the past three to four weeks, mice numbers had increased on his property and were causing damage.

“It’s certainly not as bad as a little…