Moisture putting a damper on harvest
Mother Nature hasn’t been on the farmer’s side this harvest.
According to last week’s crop report, 73 per cent of the crop is now in the bin provincially, which is just behind the five year average of 78 per cent for this time of year. In the northwestern region, the crop report shows that 33 per cent is off the fields.
David Acaster, who farms 18 miles northeast of North Battleford, told battlefordsNOW what he’s been dealing with so far this harvest season.
“The last six weeks has been progressing slowly,” he said. “It almost gets dry enough to start getting things done, and then another shot of moisture. The last couple shots of moisture were snow, rather than rain, which has added issues. We were fortunate that most of our crop, we didn’t get the real heavy snow a couple weeks ago. Our crops were still standing relatively well.”