This year’s late winter and harsh spring put farmers in Manitoba behind, including Curtis McRae.
“I know I’ll be combining in November,” said McRae.
He and other farmers need some reprieve, he says. Agriculture journalist Harry Siemens says he’s seeing it outside Manitoba too.
The crop all the way across Western Canada is probably as buried as I’ve seen it in my 50 years of journalism,” he said.
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There’s around seven thousand acres of unseeded land in Manitoba right now, according to Siemens.
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“That’s 10 per cent of all the crop,” said Siemens. “That’s unheard of.”
But despite concern about seeds getting into the ground late, he said, the crops are looking good.
Uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine and inflationary economics will still have an impact on the costs to consumers, he added.
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