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Manitoba farmers hoping for hot, dry weather to help with saturated fields
This growing season has been a frustrating and difficult one so far for Manitoba farmers, and one producer says he and others are just hoping that there will be enough hot and dry weather in the coming weeks to turn their fortunes around.
“It’s kind of crazy that we went from one extreme to the other in the course of a year,” Jake Eyre, a Minto-area farmer, and current vice president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) said on Friday.
“We saw two years of drought throughout the province, and now it’s safe to say everywhere in the province has received more precipitation this growing season than in the last two years combined.”
Eyre said he grows a wide variety of crops at his farm, but this spring and summer’s relatively wet weather combined with cool days has created some big issues for farmers across the province, including saturated fields that, in some cases, are so wet they can’t be seeded, as well as crops not growing as well as many had hoped so far.
“It’s not just the precipitation, because we also haven’t really had many days that have been 30 degrees or higher. I think it’s pretty safe to say farmers want some hot and dry weather and any hot and dry weather in the forecast would be a very welcome thing,” Eyre said.
“We would all welcome that.”
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