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German farmers report substantial crop losses due to rodent infestation
 
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German farmers report substantial crop losses due to rodent infestation


with the drought in North America, it looks like a major food crisis is shaping up. Now this from Germany:


Millions of field mice are overrunning the central German states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, much to the concern of local farmers. The rodents are devastating food crops, cutting yields by up to 50 percent. Getting birds of prey to hunt the critters didn't help, and now farmers want to be allowed to use a banned rat poison.

the rest:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/mouse-plague-hits-central-germa...
 

 
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