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NPD calls for urgent action for farmers while the Sask Party says it s already providing it

  SASKATOON In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Scott Moe, Saskatchewan s NDP opposition is calling for urgent action to help farmers facing a potentially catastrophic growing season due to drough conditions. In meeting with producers, we have heard major concerns about crop yields and access to feed and water for livestock, the NDP letter said. Failure to act now risks farm and ranch losses, deep financial and emotional impacts for families, and major negative repercussions for the Saskatchewan economy. In the letter, NDP leader Ryan Meili said the current conditions remind him of the drought and insect problems witnessed growing up on a farm in the 1980s.

Crop report July 13-19

Crops remain extremely stressed from the lack of moisture and continue to advance quickly due to the heat and dry conditions throughout the growing season.  Many parts of the province saw a break in the heat with clouds and smoke from fires moving in, providing crops a slight reprieve from heat stress.  Any rain received now will not help increase crop yield but it will help maintain yields through the heat. Provincially, 51 per cent of fall cereals, 52 per cent of spring cereals, 50 per cent of oilseeds and 49 per cent of pulse crops are at their normal stages of development for this time of year.  Many cereal crops that have headed out are not developing kernels and some producers have elected to cut these crops as greenfeed.  There is a significant shortage of livestock feed, so we encourage producers to consider alternate uses for crops that will not develop.

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