This year’s late winter and harsh spring overtook farmers in Manitoba, including Curtis McRae.
“I know I will combine in November,” McRae said.
He and other farmers need some relief, he says. Agriculture journalist Harry Siemens says he is seeing it outside Manitoba as well.
The crop across western Canada is probably as suppressed as anything I have seen in my 50 years of journalism,” he said.
According to Siemens, there are currently about 7,000 acres of non-seed land in Manitoba.
Many farms in the eastern part of the province are still so wet that growers cannot be allowed to seed, although some areas are desperate for rain, which brings mixed feelings from farmers across the province.
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“That’s 10 percent of all harvests,” Siemens said. “It’s unheard of.”
But despite concerns about late seeding in the ground, he said, the crop is looking good.
He added that the uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine and the inflationary economy will still have an impact on the cost to consumers.
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