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'Devastating year' hits Manitoba berry farms and U-pick industry

'Devastating year' hits Manitoba berry farms and U-pick industry
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Manitoba berry farmers experience extreme weather crunch

Winnipeg Free Press
By: Gillian Brown
| Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Jul. 12, 2021
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From lack of winter snowfall to spring frost to summer drought, Manitoba's small berry farm operators are feeling squeezed.
From lack of winter snowfall to spring frost to summer drought, Manitoba's small berry farm operators are feeling squeezed.
Some are being forced out of the industry all together.
After more than a decade of operation, Colleen and Mark Edmunds have made the difficult decision to retire from Grunthal Berries following the 2021 season.
The two planted their first berry crops some 70 kilometres south of Winnipeg because of their love of the outdoors and passion for farming. However, the stresses that come with increasingly variable and volatile of Prairie weather, and recent extreme weather conditions, have proved too much.

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