The emergency registration of strychnine for use on gophers in areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan may actually hamper control of the rodents.

Gophers are a huge problem for gardeners in much of the US, destroying plants from Minnesota (nicknamed the 'Gopher State') to California, and even Florida. Any yard where the soil conditions suit ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Southern Alberta farmer LeRoy Newman says he needs something to control Richardson’s ground squirrel populations. Producers can’t do so without the pesticide strychnine, which they say is an effective ...