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In Latham, in Western Australia’s wheat belt, the telltale signs of mice holes are everywhere on Dylan Hirsch’s canola farm. As winter approaches, the rodents have moved in, digging up seeds before they’ve germinated and chewing his newly laid crop. “The numbers are higher than I’ve seen and building,” he says. “In previous years, we saw isolated areas of paddocks which have had mice eating young...