There’s been a wide range of severe weather conditions for farmers in Southern Saskatchewan so far this growing season. Cherilyn Jolly-Nagel farms near Mossbank, about 140 kilometers southwest of Regina. She says local crops have faced drought, heavy rain, and three or four rounds of hail so far this year. She says the hail devastated […]
Hail struck many farming communities in southern Saskatchewan during the past few days. Wiseton area farmer Norm McIntyre says crops around his farm were pounded by pea to marble size hail Monday morning. He says the ground was white. He feels some of the crops may recover but earlier drought and hail had taken a […]
Crop damage hail claims are starting to pour in from the northwest corner of the Saskatchewan grainbelt. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says claims are coming in from farmers from Meadow Lake through Shellbrook in the northwest part of the province. He says there were plow winds and hail stones […]
Saskatchewan crop losses to hail so far this year are described as mainly light to medium. Canadian Crop Hail Association president Rick Omelchenko says storms in early to mid-June dropped pea to loonie size hail on crops in several areas of the Saskatchewan grainbelt. He described damage as mostly light to medium following recent rains. […]
