Conservative Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food John Barlow is renewing calls for the federal government to ...

Saskatchewan farmers looking to rid their fields of pesky gophers are getting more access to a harsh poison. The province says Canada's federal pest management agency has extended the emergency use of ...

"I live in an area with many gophers and needed a better way to eradicate this problem," said an inventor, from Bonsall, Calif., "so I invented the Critter Gitter. My design would effectively deliver ...

SARM President Bill Huber said the association had received a verbal commitment from Ottawa to review the use of strychnine ...

The Alberta government is telling Ottawa it does not support a federal proposal to ban the use of liquid strychnine poison for killing prairie gophers. Gophers, which burrow underground, can damage ...

Gophers have become a serious problem for farmers in northwestern Saskatchewan. Farmers want the provincial government's help in dealing with the critters. Several rural municipalities have declared a ...

A department of Health Canada said the deadly poison poses too much risk to non-target animals — some of them endangered species Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for ...