Rain eats up the already slim snow pack outside of Kemnay in western Manitoba thanks to a string of warm weather in February.  |  Alexis Stockford photo

Winter cereals struggle to survive

Lack of snow cover, January deep freeze and abnormally high temperatures have stressed winter crops across the Prairies

Minimal snow cover, frigid temperatures in mid-January and above-average temperatures after that may have set the stage for winterkill in winter crops. The risk is high enough to cause concern among crop specialists. “The eastern Prairies are in a little bit better shape than (Saskatchewan and Alberta) but there’s huge swaths that in my mind […] Read more