How to prevent and control voles when growing peanuts? Practical methods shared

Peanuts are a common cash crop, and when growing peanuts, there are often traces of voles. Especially during the sowing and harvest seasons, voles seriously affect the survival rate and yield of peanuts, so what methods can be used to prevent and control voles?

1. Chemical control

Chemical control at sowing time is mainly to prevent peanut seeds from being eaten by voles, so before sowing you can mix the seeds with some targeted chemicals that have no effect on seed germination but are harmful to voles, or while sowing, scatter some pesticide for controlling voles in the places where the seeds are scattered. These two methods are the simplest and quickest ways to prevent voles during the sowing and germination period.

2. Bait and kill control

This method can be used at sowing time and throughout the entire peanut growth stage. It means preparing some foods that voles like to eat, then mixing rodenticide into these foods, and scattering them in the fields. Of course, some voles are smart, so we should not place them too obviously; it should be done a bit covertly, letting them feel that it is food they found through their own efforts. This is also a very good method of killing rodents.

3. Agricultural control

Agricultural control means using certain characteristics of agriculture and the land itself for prevention and control. First, carry out rotating cultivation; voles have a living environment they are adapted to, so we can grow aquatic crops in one season and dry crops in the next, making voles feel they cannot survive. Second, we can carry out unified planting in a certain area, which can also spread out the damage from voles. Third, when we usually plow the land, we only loosen a bit of the surface soil, so voles also keep living there; therefore we should plow as deeply as possible, destroying vole burrows, which can also cause certain harm to voles.

4. Ecological control

Ecological control means using the natural ecosystem for prevention and control. Simply put, snakes and cats are both natural enemies of voles, so we can use the snakes that already exist in the fields to deal with voles, and at the same time we can raise cats ourselves; cats also very much like to go to the fields at night to catch rodents.