"You get into that Interlake region, that's certainly I think the hardest hit and it's been in the media a lot. There's no doubt we're seeing the same thing on our end and there's some pockets south and west of Winnipeg as well that was harder hit too, so they're struggling there. From there, it's a lot smaller areas I would say. A little bit of hit and miss throughout the west as well but some areas in the west managed to get some timely rains, so aren't as bad. From a regional perspective, it's certainly the Interlake and that Starbuck country that seems to have taken on a pretty big hit from the drought this year."
He says crops were converted into livestock feed at a higher rate than has been seen in many years.
The forage claim deadline is September 30th. Annual crops have a deadline of November 30th.
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