Good rainfall in recent years has led to an explosion of rabbit numbers on NSW farms, forcing some farmers to employ professional shooters to cull the population.

Professional shooters are killing more than 1,000 feral rabbits each night as numbers of the pest dramatically increase after good rain.

Numbers have been increasing after three years of regular rainfall, with more than 28 tonnes of carrots used to lure then poison rabbits on Riverina farms this year.

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