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| FTLComm - Tisdale - Friday, May 27, 2005 | ||||||
 Despite the low temperatures and almost continuous light rain almost all of Tisdale's farmers have completed seeding for this year. This field seen on the right and below was planted May 10th and is looking pretty good when I looked at it yesterday morning. It usually takes a little longer for a crop planted on stubble to get going but this one looks like it is pretty even. |
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 This crop (right and below) was planted on a well worked up field and is about two miles north of town on highway 35. There was good seeding conditions and this year's crop went in without a hitch. Now it is getting the rain that it needs to germinate and the only thing lacking is warmth. However, we can not complain as there had been a threat of frost last night but as it turned out the temperature did not dip below+5º. |
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 The dehydration plant has been cooking up some bales and with this much
moisture their swathers should be out in the fields in about a week from now.There is positive talk about the opening of the border for live cattle in mid June but the hog producers in the province suffered a set back when the Japanese owned hog processing plant in Moose Jaw laid off its entire 300 workforce. The Moose Jaw plant exports to Japan and with higher North American prices this is not presently profittable and the plant is behind more than a million in payments to farmers. |
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