Farms.com Home   News

Crops take a hard hit from Dorian

"There's lots of damage in corn crops, grain crops, orchards, blueberries and vineyards. They're some of the hardest hit."
 
The province's agricultural industry took a big hit after Hurricane Dorian destroyed a number of crops.
 
Victor Oulton is the president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture and tells NEWS 95.7 they're in recovery mode at this time.
 
"We're in the process of gathering information now," said Oulton. "I know there's lots of damage in corn crops, grain crops, orchards, blueberries and vineyards. They're some of the hardest hit."
 
Oulton says this is the second year in a row crops have taken a hit.
 
"Last year they were hit with frost damage early in the Spring," he said. "There's major cost into getting all that repaired and fixed up, up to $30,000 an acre plus you lose a few years of production out of that, so it's significant loss."
Click here to see more...

Trending Video

360 Grain Corn

Video: 360 Grain Corn


Have you ever driven by a field of corn, and wondered how exactly it got there?? Welcome to VanQuaethem Farms, an Ontario grain farm! In this video, the family will guide you through each of the stages of planting, caring for and harvesting corn. You'll see all of the hard work it takes to get corn from seed to harvest.