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Sask. agriculture minister predicts 2013 will be record crop year

Saskatchewan farmers are making significant progress in this year’s harvest. File / Global News

REGINA – Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister says this year’s crop will be the biggest ever recorded.

Lyle Stewart held a news conference Thursday at his farm just north of Pense where he was finishing up a flax field.

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After completing a few laps in his combine, Stewart stopped and talked to local media about the kind of growing season it’s been.

He says it started out looking like a very difficult year, with a late spring and a lot of water.

But he says farmers worked under very difficult circumstances across the province and got the crop in when there was still some snow around.

A cold summer didn’t help much either, though Stewart says it helped the canola yields by keeping the plants from blooming too early.

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