Rabbit funding about to end while numbers balloon and viruses struggle

Marian Macdonald
Updated July 4 2022 - 11:18pm, first published March 31 2022 - 9:00am
FarmBuy Real Estate
OLD FOE: Rabbits around a waterhole during a myxomatosis trial in 1938. Source: National Archives
OLD FOE: Rabbits around a waterhole during a myxomatosis trial in 1938. Source: National Archives

It's a perfect storm. Viruses that have controlled rabbits for years are now only about one-third as effective as they once were and the best season in years has rabbit numbers soaring.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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