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User Info Field Mice Overrun Farms in Central Germany in forum [SoftCommodities]
Lplate
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Worst Plague in 30 Years
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeit....
07/11/2012

Millions of field mice are overrunning the central German states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, much to the concern of local farmers. The rodents are devastating food crops, cutting yields by up to 50 percent. Getting birds of prey to hunt the critters didn't help, and now farmers want to be allowed to use a banned rat poison...
Ben
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This is a MEDIEVAL ERA ISSUE.

Good grief, we are going backwards.

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Get cats?

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Terriers dude. They are killing machines.
Hiphopapotamus
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Good time to invest in Pied Piper futures..
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any old Zyklon B still knocking around?

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Very small mines?
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rat on a stick? mice kabobs?

Hey, meat is meat. Wouldn't small critters fit in well with paleo diets?

smiley


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I recall an episode of Crocodile Hunter (RIP Steve) where he went down the list of non-native species in AU. One scene sticks with me is the wall-to-wall mice in a grain hopper.

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I love mouse plagues.

As long as they're occurring somewhere else of course.

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