Feds push for national pest plan

Feds push for national pest plan

Reading Time: 3 minutes With rising numbers of feral animals hammering farm pasture, fences and native bush, Federated Farmers is calling for a national pest strategy.   “Farmers are constantly reporting bigger mobs of feral deer, wild pigs eating lambs, and huge flocks of Canada geese and ducks fouling farmland and waterways,” Federated Farmers meat and wool chair Richard Dawkins says.   Federated Farmers has asked Parliament’s Primary Producti…