Warm weather helps farmers push through harvest after snow, rain delay
Posted Nov 15, 2016 2:28 pm.
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Unseasonably warm weather has helped some Prairie farmers finish a harvest that was delayed because of snow.
Murray Taks farms near Crossfield, northeast of Calgary, and joyfully says that he’s done harvesting and is helping neighbours finish up.
Farmers across Saskatchewan and Alberta were behind in getting their crops off because snow, then rain, in early October left fields saturated and brought combines to a halt.
Taks says it’s a big relief to be done.
Don Williams, who farms in Lanigan, Sask., started harvesting Aug. 22, but didn’t finished until last Wednesday.
Williams says only about one-third of his crop was dry, so he’s dried about 130,000 bushels of grain so far and has another 60,000 to go.
