Feral pig bounty put to test

The Tottenham branch of NSW Farmers has trialled a bounty for feral pigs, with the hope it could go statewide as numbers of the pest surge.

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00:00Feral pigs are causing havoc right across the state, with men are reporting the numbers

00:06are the highest they've ever seen.

00:08After NSW Farmers passed a resolution in support of a bounty, the Tottenham branch in the centre

00:13of the state decided to put the concept to a trial.

00:15They are hoping the results will help convince the NSW Government to have a bounty be part

00:19of its overall plan.

00:21They're breeding up, we're getting more and more pigs, they're coming through and moving

00:25around a lot.

00:26The only way we seem to be able to do anything with them is to hunt them and to trap them.

00:33And you've just done this bounty, how would you say that the trial has been?

00:37Been extremely successful, we had nine hunters, they got 1,427 pigs in a month, made a huge

00:45difference to the number of pigs that are about, but the big difference between a bounty

00:50and just recreational hunting is they're taking out all the pigs, they're not just taking

00:54out the big ones, so it's been a great reduction in pig numbers.