P.E.I. farmers are five days into a suspension of trade for their potatoes into the U.S. market and it is five days of sales lost for large farms and family farms alike.For Kiesha Rose Topic, pictured here in one of her potato fields with her father, Boyd, and daughter, Mae, farming is a family business.…
More irrigation, drought-tolerant crop species and new management practices are all being considered as Prairie farmers continue to grapple with the devastating impacts of this year’s drought.Paul Kernaleguen’s dairy farm is located just outside Birch Hills, Sask. He says he has fared this year’s drought better than most farmers because he practises an agricultural technique…
Crops are failing to grow without much rain or reprieve from unrelenting heat during what one expert says is shaping up to be the worst drought in Canadian history.Farmer Derek Tallon stands in one of his lentil fields near Lafleche, Sask. Tallon is harvesting the worst crop he’s ever grown and expects his overall production to…
A Manitoba drought that continues to plunge producers into a financial crisis, and it doesn’t appear to be going away soon.Sixty per cent of Manitoba dairy farmers surveyed recently said they already know, or uncertain, they will have enough feed to get their cows through winter due severe drought stunting crops. (Shane Hennessey/CBC)A Manitoba drought…