There are fears another mouse plague is on the way. Photo: AP PHOTO

Mouse populations are booming in some of Australia's key cropping zones, with scientists seeing early warning signs another plague is on the way.

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Parts of southern Australia have experienced 20 months of dry weather followed by 200mm of in-crop rainfall, conditions known to trigger a plague, CSIRO research officer Steve Henry said.

There have been increased captures at mice monitoring zones across South Australia's Adelaide Plains, Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula, along with Victoria's Wimmera region.

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