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Widespread rain delays Sask. harvest amid fears of crop downgrading

Widespread rain across the Saskatchewan grainbelt is delaying harvest and may cause some crop loss.
 
The vice chair of SaskWheat, Scott Hepworth, says his farm at Assiniboia has had about 30 millimeters of rain since the weekend.
 
He says “this is the kind of worst weather we could possibly dream of right now.”
 
Rainfall has reached over 25 millimeters in Regina.
 
Hepworth is worried about possible downgrading of some cereal crops, particularly durum wheat.
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Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

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Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.