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Sask. drought hangs over mustard price outlook

Mustard growers and buyers have their guns drawn but nobody’s shooting yet.

When the clock hits “harvest,” there could be a violent resolution of the supply-and-demand showdown.

“We’re all holding our breath as we get to harvest,” said Peter Gorski, senior grain buyer for BroadGrain Commodities.

“There’s a lot that’s hanging on shower to shower.”

Western Canada could produce a big crop. It could also produce a short crop and exacerbate the present zero-stocks situation.

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.