Climate Changed
Soggy Prairies Threaten Vital Grain Planting Season in Canada
- Late April rains may cause field work delays: meterologist
- Soils in Manitoba, Saskatchewan saturated from moisture
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First came a deluge of rain, then a string of winter blizzards. Now, April showers are threatening to heap further moisture on waterlogged fields just as Canada’s farmers prepare to plant their fields this spring.
Parts of Canada’s prairies will be wetter than normal in the last two weeks of April, costing farmers “significant” field work delays at the start of planting, said Joel Widenor, an agricultural meteorologist with Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland.