How Much Yield Risk?
VANCOUVER - Jul 3/15 - SNS -- Quantifying the risks facing this year's pulse and specialty crops in Canada is not an easy task despite the obvious fact that many parts of western Canada continue to face day after day of clear skies and moderately hot temperatures.
Showers and rains keep bringing respite to parts of the province, but increasingly provincial agronomists and farmers are reaching the opinion it is too late for rain to make much difference to a growing proportion of the crop.
Grain and oilseed analysts are starting to compare this growing season with the drought on 2002, which devastated yields for all crops and resulted in the smallest overall harvest in decades in the face of record low yields for many crops.
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