The hot and dry summer we’ve been experiencing is hitting area farms hard.
With little rain that’s fallen, and not much in our current forecast, crops including corn and soybeans are seeing impacted growth and some farmer’s fields ending up in a drought.
Not only are the crops impacted, but so are farm animals and some farmers have had to pay more than expected to protect their livestock to make sure they are still producing.
Clint Cameron represents Leeds Grenville with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and runs a farm east of Spencerville.
He tells Moose FM that the weather is part of a trend that’s been seen over the past few years.
“Not as dominant a crop and not as productive as it once was. Farmers are running out of water and the temperatures are getting warmer. Our summer median temperatures are higher now than they were when I was a kid.”
Cameron adds that farmers are doing their best to deal with the situation and they are looking to provincial programs to help offset some of the rising costs.
