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Heavy rain to wash out Prairie seeding plans
WINNIPEG - Heavy rain across much of the Prairies will hamper farmers who had been hoping to squeeze in more hectares ahead of Sunday`s final crop insurance deadlines.
Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings for central and southwestern Saskatchewan, west-central Manitoba and southern Alberta, as rain moves from northeastern Montana across Canada`s main crop-growing belt Thursday and Friday.
The rain adds to record amounts of precipitation across much of the Prairies this spring, which have the Canadian Wheat Board forecasting the largest unplanted acreage in 39 years.
Canada is the world`s largest exporter of spring wheat, durum and canola.
Many Prairie areas are forecast to receive 50 to 75 millimetres of rain into Friday, but Alberta could see 100 mm in the Lethbridge area.
Most of the unplanted area is in Saskatchewan.
Rain reached southern Saskatchewan overnight and the heaviest rain is expected along the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary and from west to east in Saskatchewan from Kindersley through Saskatoon, Wynyard and Kamsack, Environment Canada said.
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WINNIPEG - Heavy rain across much of the Prairies will hamper farmers who had been hoping to squeeze in more hectares ahead of Sunday`s final crop insurance deadlines.
Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings for central and southwestern Saskatchewan, west-central Manitoba and southern Alberta, as rain moves from northeastern Montana across Canada`s main crop-growing belt Thursday and Friday.
The rain adds to record amounts of precipitation across much of the Prairies this spring, which have the Canadian Wheat Board forecasting the largest unplanted acreage in 39 years.
Canada is the world`s largest exporter of spring wheat, durum and canola.
Many Prairie areas are forecast to receive 50 to 75 millimetres of rain into Friday, but Alberta could see 100 mm in the Lethbridge area.
Most of the unplanted area is in Saskatchewan.
Rain reached southern Saskatchewan overnight and the heaviest rain is expected along the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary and from west to east in Saskatchewan from Kindersley through Saskatoon, Wynyard and Kamsack, Environment Canada said.
Read full article here