Deer population called out of control in Sask.

Grain grower Ross Vollmer remembers when it was unusual to see a white-tailed deer near his family’s farmyard in central Saskatchewan.

Those days are long gone.

“When I was a kid, if we’d seen one deer all summer we were pretty happy,” said Vollmer.

“Back then, it was a real novelty. Now, there’s 20 or more in our yard every day. There’s just way too many deer in the area. It’s overpopulated.”

Vollmer has lived in the same farmyard near Loreburn, Sask., for about 60 years.

He and his wife, Gerri, say they have never seen deer populations so high.