2018 a challenge for Island producersBrian Morrison remembered

摘要

Mother Nature has thrown a lot at us in terms of weather extremes in 2018! Producers had to face almost every conceivable weather challenge this year. There was a late frost in spring that killed off the blossoms in the fruit crops, followed by an extremely dry summer, and one of the worst autumn seasons on record in terms of an early frost, rainfall, freezing temperatures, and snow. The swift onset of winter caught many people unprepared and left approximately 10 percent of the P.E.I, potato crop unharvested, and acres and acres of soybeans and corn standing in foot-deep snow. Only favourable conditions will allow the harvest of the corn crop but it's doubtful any soybeans still standing are salvageable.