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Rick Kantz of the B.C. Grain Producers Association says snow has forced farmers across the Peace region in northeastern B.C to leave anywhere between 10 to 20 per cent of their crop in the fields.
Rick Kantz of the B.C. Grain Producers Association says snow has forced farmers across the Peace region in northeastern B.C to leave anywhere between 10 to 20 per cent of their crop in the fields.
On Oct. 1, Fort St. John received 23 centimetres of snow, The old record for the day was six centimetres set in 1954.
"This is probably the most severe one-off weather condition that I can remember in the last 40 years," said Rick Kantz, president of the B.C. Grain Producers Association.
Kantz said harvest had already been difficult this year.
"[The fields] were extremely wet before the snows came ... so instead of travelling across the surface, you're sinking in."
He said it's been raining and snowing since then, and the weather has forced grain farmers to leave anywhere between 10 to 20 per cent of their crops in the field.
"You're down 20 per cent of your income ... you might have enough to cover expenses but it doesn't leave much for wages to carry on," he explained.
Comment: Wow! That's a first!
However, this same city experienced a spate of giant sinkholes back in 2013:
Samara: The Russian city being 'eaten alive' as cars, buses and trucks disappear, swallowed by giant sinkholes