Agricultural Pest Control

Adelaide Hills residents have counted up to 50 rabbits on lawns where last year there were only five, as the introduced pest ravages crops and native vegetation. 

Australian beekeepers are looking overseas to find chemical-free solutions to manage the world's deadliest bee parasite.

Workers say they feel "sad and hopeless" after being indefinitely stood down due to the virus, which can slash crop yields by up to 70 per cent.

Graziers say they have never seen so many feral pigs in outback Queensland and they want more government support to control the population.

Young siblings Otis and Frankie collect 10 cents for every cane toad they capture from neighbours' backyards.

NSW graziers who have been waiting five years to see a 32-kilometre-wide hole fixed in the wild dog fence that runs through their sheep and goat station say they are fed up and are being forced to sell.

After years planting cotton, a growing region has built up a soil pest that sucks the life out of crops — but there may be a solution on the horizon.

Researchers are developing a new pesticide and vaccine to give farmers additional tools to combat cattle ticks that are growing resistant to chemical treatments.

The NSW south coast's only queen bee breeder is using artificial insemination to breed honey bee colonies that are resistant to varroa mite.

Meat harvested from culling programs of boar, goat, venison and even wallaby could be a fine dining solution to a waste of protein, but a successful industry could be in danger of undermining itself if populations fall.

Feral pigs have been sighted in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, sparking warnings that urgent controls are needed before they become a persistent population.

Leg traps, cages and AI gel sprayers are being deployed against feral cats on Kangaroo Island, but the Invasive Species Council says it could all be for nothing without a change in the law.

Fall armyworm has been referred to the "coronavirus of agriculture" with the devastation the moth causes likened to that of a bushfire. And unfortunately, it's here.

The Clarence River is no longer considered the cane toad southern front line, with populations found as far south as Wooli and inland near Grafton, their migration helped by favourable conditions.

About 20,000 feral deer have been removed from South Australia over the past two years, but stakeholders say the pests' breeding rate means that will have little impact unless efforts are doubled.

Snake season is upon us and experts say how you respond in the minutes after a bite could be the difference between life and death.

Grain and oilseed growers in northern NSW look to the skies and hope the weather cooperates to produce a stand-out harvest this year with the success credited to a full moisture profile at sowing and consistent and timely rain throughout the growing season.

Three years after a tiny pest began killing trees across Perth, authorities are sticking to one method — cutting down established trees in the hope of eradicating the pest. With no silver bullet in sight, what will it take for Perth to learn to live with it? 

An army of beneficial bugs is fighting the bad bugs that gnaw on your vegetables, protecting the borders of the largest greenhouse set-up in the southern hemisphere.

The Shire of Murchison says it's "unlikely" two popular pet dingoes on farmstay Wooleen Station were shot under its bounty system.