Agricultural Pest Control

Queensland is considering changes that would remove restrictions on keeping dingoes and while the government says that will not mean people can keep them as pets, experts fear it could be an unintended outcome.

Growers in this major food bowl are nervous for their future, as the state focuses its shot-hole borer efforts on outer-Perth. 

New rules around a popular insecticide could lead to lower blueberry production, but growers are confident the industry will adapt.

The federal pesticide authority has updated how the chemical dimethoate can be used on berries after new data confirmed skyrocketing consumption has been putting young children over the safety limit. 

For the past 25 years the "king of weeds", Mark Facer, has been chasing and eradicating weeds. Now he has been called in to help graziers in far west NSW with the worst mesquite infestation he has seen.

Rangers have spent years working to protect the tropical island’s unique wildlife and expect feral cats will be eliminated next year. 

Neville Mattick says feral pigs are eating the lambs on his farm in the NSW Central West, with fewer than one in 100 surviving this season. 

The CSIRO is urging farmers to reduce opportunities for mice breeding this harvest season as the threat of a pest population boom looms.

The State Administrative Tribunal rejects an application to review a DPIRD order to cull more than 100 feral donkeys at a remote Kimberley station.

A nationwide program has traced how foxes spread from south-eastern Australia to as far away as the Pilbara in just 70 years, as part of efforts to revive native species populations decimated by the pest.

A Lockyer Valley man has accidentally found a toxic weed not seen in the region for more than half a century.

A resurgence of rabbit populations following recent rainfall is driving experts to urge for increased control measures. 

More than a year since South Australia's $230 million tomato and capsicum sector was plunged into turmoil by the first discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus in Australia, the state has been declared free of the exotic disease.

Farmers are calling for a cull of kangaroos, which they say are being forced onto farmland by drought and dry conditions and consuming what little feed and water they have. 

Dozens of pigs were released illegally over several attempts to establish populations for hunting, with a local landscape board warning of the danger a feral population could cause.

Authorities launch an independent review of Australia's national fire ant eradication program to evaluate the country's fight against one of the world’s most destructive pests.

The estimated cost of the invasive khapra beetle to Australia's grains industry could be more than $15 billion if it became endemic across the country after being discovered in imported nappy pants.

The infected potato seeds, transported from Tasmania to Victoria, were found in cold storage and none have been planted.

Farmers say the native species costs them thousands of dollars in crop losses each year, but a conservationist says shooting them is inhumane and ineffective.

Growers and scientists have teamed up in a bid to combat the rapidly increasing population of the voracious pest, which is devastating crops in WA's south-east.