Opinion

Farmers took full advantage of the windy, hot weather this week to chip away at harvest. They had about three-quarters of the province’s crop in their bins just as October arrived with a cooler, wetter forecast.

But it hasn’t been easy, as evidenced by the deeply rutted fields in areas that received heavy rains two weeks ago. There has been no shortage of anecdotal reports of “rescue” operations, where an individual operation’s harvest was waylaid by the need to extract equipment mired in the mud.

Wet soils beneath a thick canopy of ripe crops also add up to quality losses. While much of the early cereals harvested this fall have ranked in the top grades, some fields where harvest was delayed by rain resulted in grain that was downgraded to livestock feed, which is a major hit o

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