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Dirty, disease-carrying, destructive: call to cut feral pig numbers

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One of the unfortunate side-effects for agriculture in western NSW after three years of above-average rainfall has been a huge rise in feral pig numbers in remote areas of the State.

Farmers say that the explosion in these disease-carrying pests in the north and west of the State has resulted in massive damage to properties and livestock.

Across NSW, more than 34,000 hoofed feral animals – inc...


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