'Long overdue': Prairie farmers welcome renewal of poison to target pesky gophers

by Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press

Prairie farmers say a move by Ottawa to temporarily lift a ban on a rodent poison is a good start to address rampant gopher populations that have decimated crops and injured livestock.

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