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Canadian Crops
by Jack Cram, CBC
International Service farm commentator.
Canadian farmers have had more than
their usual quota of trouble this year. The
worst of these threats to food production
was the series of floods that started in the
West in April, and moved East with a
vengeance, continuing till late June. Then
came droughts and frosts and more floods
in some sections of the West. With these
calamities of nature added to the feed
shortage in Eastern Canada, the outlook for several weeks was really grim.
Then fate seemed to relent. The late season in the West, paradoxically,
saved the grain crop from serious injury when the severe frosts struck in June.
Much of the crop had not yet emerged, and in other places the grain had been
hardened by the cool weather, so that the frost did comparatively little damage.
At the same time Eastern Canadian farmers, whose spring seeding of grains
had been long delayed, were able to harvest an unusually good hay crop.
And the weather suddenly grew warm, enabling them to plant early-maturing
grains with fair prospects of a harvest.
After all the setbacks crops had received it was somewhat of a surprise
when the mid-season crop reports stated that wheat prospects were good, and
that there was expected to be a big crop of coarse grains in the West. Even
in Central and Eastern Canada much of the late-planted grain had come along
fast with the warm weather, and it was evident that, barring early fall frosts,
the harvest of feed grain would be considerably more than the 50 percent of
normal that had been predicted earlier in the season.
Feed grain would still be short in the provinces that produce most of
Canada’s bacon, dairy products and eggs. But plans were being made to start
an immediate movement of feed from the West, where supplies were expected
to be ample. If a big portion of next winter’s feed could be moved before
late fall it was not expected that there would be any trouble with the feeding
program for the coming season.
Here is the line-up of probabilities for Canada’s chief food exports to the
United Kingdom:
Wheat—Supplies should be normal.
Bacon—The same as last year or a little better.
Poultry—About the same as last year.
Dairy Products—In normal supply.
For information on later developments, listen to “Farm Review” on
Fridays at 1715 GMT and Saturdays at 2045 GMT. During the summer
Hugh Boyd of the Winnipeg Free Press brings a week-by-week description
of current events in Canadian Food Production.
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