Music Realize that everyone's flat out at the moment feeding stock, but just a quick reminder that now is the perfect time to get on top of your pests. As you've probably noticed, pests are hanging around your feet, our areas and your water points. Although this is not ideal for livestock, it provides a great opportunity to undertake trapping and baiting. Undertaking control during this time is more targeted and cost effective and means that numbers are less likely to recover once the drought breaks. There is no one size fits all approach to pest control. We need to make sure we're using a number of techniques which is suited to the specific environment and the pest species. When undertaking primary control such as baiting, we need to get large initial population knocked down. In terms of rabbits and pigs, this is at least 70% of the population. We want to follow up our primary control techniques with secondary control. This could include trapping, harbord destruction, fumigation and shooting. This aims to reduce populations recovering and keep the numbers low. Broadscarf control is best. When undertaking pest control, we want to get all our neighbours involved and be undertaking control within the same time frame. Pests are highly mobile. They travel large distances and getting all our neighbours involved will make sure we get the best bang for our buck. Your local biosecurity officers are here to help, so give us a call today.