KINGSTON — The summer drought in Eastern Ontario was a reminder to many local farmers of the challenges farmers in developing countries face every year, said a representative of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Article content

“There’s a lot of crops that are really suffering and you’re seeing that because, of course, we get a lot of support from growing projects,” said Henry Reinders, the organization’s Ontario and Quebec regional representative, who was in Kingston to meet with local supporters and the agricultural community. Article content

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“The crops in eastern Ontario have been really, really hit hard by the drought,” he said. “I hear farmers talking about yields that are, you know, 30 per cent, 40 per cent of what they would normally get and th

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