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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=10019" target="_blank">Prairies' farming conditions turn bad</a> (click to view)

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<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=WDHIII" target="_blank">WDHIII</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2006-07-30 12:32:11
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[usababe]

let it rain!!!!!!

[SprCForr]

It has. Nightly.

It's getting to the point where people can't talk on the street because the sound of things growing is so loud!

[usababe]

oh, well good then!

[SprCForr]

An hour after my last post it truly dumped again. The trouble is the patchiness (isn't it always?). Sure has gone a long way towards refilling dugouts, sloughs and groundwater levels! The lake looks better than it has in years.

[GunPlumber]

Geez, goes to show what I don't know about farming. I woulda thought this year's sequence (rain/heat/more rain/????) might've met expectations.

I'm still struggling to understand how early crop development is caused by excessive heat and dryness, and how that leads to lower yields. Would a period of excessive moisture (rain is forecast to be ongoing for the next week) restore the balance and increase yields?