Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta are cleared to use strychnine this year and next year against gophers wrecking their fields and pastures.
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Saskatchewan, Alberta farmers get strychnine against gophers until late 2027
Conservatives call for approval of emergency strychnine use
Poison used for pest populations of gophers was phased out over the first half of the 2020s.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal Conservatives called for the government to authorize emergency use of the poison strychnine against infestations of gophers.