Manitoba is facing extremely dry conditions right now, causing challenging times for farmers.
Andre Steppler from Steppler Farms recently made a video on Facebook to bring awareness to the drought situation in the province.
“The fact is we’re in a drought. The fact is it’s at a critical level and we need to get all stakeholders on board to push this message forward and have urgent results coming out of the provincial and federal governments to help out our cattle producers. If we don’t then we’re going to start losing our cow herd, and that’s going to have huge detrimental economic effects on our province as well as our producers themselves.”
Photo - Andre Steppler
Steppler says it’s unfortunate that we had a change of Agriculture Ministers during the drought, as Ralph Eichler was sworn in as Minister of Agriculture and Resource Development on Thursday.
“It’s going to delay any progress of programs from the provincial government, but we need to stress the urgency of it.”
Environment Canada predicts a series of heat warnings will be in effect in many parts of the province for the rest of the month.
