Product Overview
Publication date: June 2025 - No 185
Format: Downloadable PDF - 28 pages including ads
Mouse populations remain a significant challenge for grain growers across Australia, affecting crop yields and profitability. Effective mouse management requires the precise and efficient application of bait in broadacre cropping, with the best results achieved when combined with integrated pest management strategies. Mouse outbreaks often coincide with favourable seasonal conditions. Poorly applied bait can leave populations unmanaged, which compounds and increases crop losses. To address this, the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) invested in research to identify common challenges in baiting practices and test solutions using a thorough evaluation process. This report brings together the latest research and practical recommendations on bait spreading and machinery performance to help growers improve mouse control strategies. By Ben White, Mark Saunders and Josh Giumelli.
Includes the following articles:
- Mouse bait spreading methods tested
- Equipment specification and performance
- Adjustable-aperture metered spreaders
- 12v meter roller spreaders
- Conventional linkage spreaders
- Belt spreaders with modified metering
- Mouse bait spreader performance testing
- Spreader test results
- APV (18m)
- APV (28m)
- Sharman bait spreader (20m)
- Stocks Ag Fan Jet Pro Plus (18m)
- Stocks Ag Fan Jet Pro Plus (36m)
- C-Dax Slugmaster (18m)
- Amazone ZA-TS (36m)
- Aircraft with “Meterate” metering
- Interpreting the results
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