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ACTA Corporate Developments

ACTA has grown and developed some significant new product ranges through 2006. Read about the new corporate developments in "A Year In Review".

We keep our customers and other interested parties informed with our Information Update series. The current Information Update, number 27, contains articles about a diverse range of pest management issues, including:

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General Interest

October 2006

ACTA has released several new products and added to its familiar product ranges. The list of new products includes:

July 2006

Following reports of extensive crop damage across the Eyre Peninsula caused by mice, a brief survey of current damage to crops caused by mice in Wudinna suggests that the usual indicators of the presence of mice are underestimating the problem posed to farmers, and that now is the time to bait if the potential for mice damage to crops is to be minimised. The risk posed by mice varies with the crop, but at a mice control workshop in Wudinna Paul Crock said that in high-value crops once mice damage is apparent, the cost of preventing even such a small percentage of damage is exceeded.

See: Little pests can beat the cold. http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news.asp?editorial_id=67091 and http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news.asp?editorial_id=67064

October 2005

Springtime Fumigation of Fox Dens: Now is the time to fumigate fox dens to reduce the impact of a new generation of foxes this season.

Synthetic Fermented Egg Attractant: SFE has demonstrated its effectiveness in attracting feral canids.

The Southern Ark Project. The Southern Ark Project is a research effort to reduce the impact of foxes across the eastern corner of Victoria

August 2005

An article in "The Land" newspaper on 11 August 2005 (P. 58) titled "Fox bait necessary, just handle with more care" cautions about the potential for "careless and irresponsible use" of baits necessarily used to control foxes and wild dogs in the period corresponding to the NSW lambing season. Rob Churchill from the Crookwell Veterinary Clinic, stresses that the baits be laid "in accordance with the instructions on the permit: that signage is placed properly, neighbours appropriately notified of the intention to bait, and unconsumed baits collected after a reasonable period."

July 2005

18 July 2005 ABC Rural: Mouse Plague Potential

The ABC rural report on 18 July reported a potential for mice to rise to plague proportions quickly, and the conditions are in place now. You can see the full abstract for the programme at: http://www.abc.net.au/rural/sa/stories/s1416619.htm

April 2005

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the Australian Parliament is enquiring into the impact of pest animals on agriculture and the environment. The principal focus is on the impact of wild dogs on stock but there is no restriction on the issues that can be raised. The purpose of this enquiry is to identify nationally significant pest animal issues, and consider how current and future approaches can mitigate damage and reduce the potential for infestation.

Animal Control Technologies has long held concerns about the inefficiencies that arise from legislative and labelling differences between states and of the relatively short term nature of some approaches. We have made an impassioned ???? plea to the committee to prompt constructive debate on what we se as the practical realities of pest animal management in Australia.

A list of the submissions to this committee in electronic form is at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/primind/pestanimals/subs.htm. The submission from Animal Control Technologies Australia is at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/primind/pestanimals/subs/sub084.pdf.

We hope you will take the time to explore these submissions to see the range and significance of issues and proposed solutions.

2004

September

Putting Pressure on Pigs

August

GRDC partnership encourages best practice mouse management
Queensland wild dogs face new threat
http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news.asp?editorial_id=59627 Summary: "ANGER is rising in many parts of rural NSW over the wild dog problem"
http://www.wool.com.au/AWI/mediaevents.nsf/0/6FC8DDB0CBF064A8CA256EE80002F900 Summary: "Australian Wool Innovation Limited's (AWI) research project to develop an alternative poison bait for control of feral dogs and foxes moved a step closer this week with a specialist animal control technology company now contracted to undertake product commercialisation."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/02/1091432113912.html Summary: "The origins of the dingo - whose ancestry and time of origin have long been a puzzle - now seems to be settled after DNA analysis by Australian, Swedish and New Zealand scientists."

July

http://www.abc.net.au/newengland/news/200407/s1159989.htm Summary: "The Department of Primary Industries has issued a warning about the potential of a huge influx of mice into the NSW New England and north-west regions in the coming months."
http://tamworth.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=323515&y=2004&m=7 Summary: "LANDHOLDERS in the Tamworth Rural Lands Protection Board area have been warned to prepare for an onslaught of locusts and mice of plague proportions in the coming spring."

2003

November

www.grdc.com.au/growers/gc/gc47/mice.htm Summary: "Developed by Animal Control Technologies Pty Ltd (ACTA), Mouseoff^® Zinc Phosphide Bait can be applied within two weeks of harvest or – in a bid to encourage pro-active mouse control – at any time from sowing to preharvest."

June

QLD Country Hour - 04/06/2003: Feral pig workshop at http://www.abc.net.au/rural/qld/stories/s871977.htm Summary: "The country's largest ever feral pig workshop has just wrapped up in Cairns with delegates seeking support from all levels of Government for a national and co-ordinated eradication programme."

May

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/04/1051987602917.html Summary: "Foxes will eat almost anything -- grapes and other crops, poultry of all types, and lambs."

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