Farmers in the Estevan, SK area are out evaluating crop damage from recent storm activity after rain, intense hail, and high winds hit the area last week. On Sunday alone, heavy rain rolled through the area, with reports of three to five inches within a couple of hours.
Joe Melle farms between Lampman and Estevan, and says he lost about 13 acres of crop from the storms.
"We just finished spraying our fungicides, and (now) the durum and the canola is just wrecked," Melle says, adding they also lost about a half section of barley.
"We had a perfect growing season in May, you couldn't ask for anything nicer," he reflects on the earlier part of the growing season. "But then the tap starting turning on in probably the end of May or the first part in June, and we've probably had over 10 inches of rain on our farm."
Over the past weekend parts of southwestern Manitoba faced some of the same weather, with severe thunderstorms ravaging the area. While some areas of the southwest still look okay, Killarney-area farmer Myron Peters says there are fields in quite bad shape.
Source : Portageonline