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"The rainfall will: be good for it:* said 4riran l ik ane!
6Qii 41n4 crap ralvisot for the Ontario linriatry
culture, p'>?ad. and: Ftp. Affirms
Sever centimetres of Iain fell ;tczos thn
teguora between; March 9: and March
til marking .an eto possibly
record setting dry weather in
' February, .M
Environment Canada:
reports only a: trace .Qt' pre-
cipitation in. the.regnonn during,
February.
That had lett the Water table
iy low>'.' said Hall.
Ent the recent a pr coed tc
z pletzislx whale. was togit in February,
What would he back -now is if the sudden cold; snap -Of
Marcid l k was, to lust for extended periost of time.
That would!Hurt the winter wheat ctop that as. Qf` last.
„eek,. wt S egperiencing, softie gmwdr,
Hall said the wheat . crop hard: experetnced' KIM
growth i January and it brake dorrnaney agantr tin mid-
' 'ebruarY.
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lives when Environment cane reported, wimp raa
ttteis u !Our degrees warmer than normal.
The true test for the winter wheat crop will male in
the next month..
Riga. now, Hall said, elle winter wheat that's Out in
the lira looks pretty potii7
ff there a consistently cold days. bel+ v+inortttltt tem-
peratures.
ern-p atures. 'iv could oguse t#ae' wheat sc Hie
problems.
The laiek o snow couldhave
mused to problem the Wheat. if
ebruary temperatures, were clan-.
er to normal. A blanket of show
helps protect the. wheat; Item
the cold tetupknrhture,; •
FUrttknately. while- El
Niictcn did not give us sn w, it
• 10u slid not produce .cold weiuber.
Environment • Canada; is :.5till expoetin ,
above normal temperatures, influenced by:EI
` h t nuskAat weather effects twit nc.rczss tilt world, aro
having little effect on the local crops, and Hall expects a
normal $eason,
>f.wu•liacltft receivdi: eXlia rain at thy: baginni:n ul
March., Hail said U. water _ table could have been lows
enatngh,:tcx alt tlne growth of sprue!; and sitnznr craps;
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