Farmers in Nova Scotia are struggling to maintain and harvest crops after back-to-back rain events across the province this summer. Andy Vermuelen grows lettuce in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. According to him, says one bad week of rain turned into five bad weeks this summer. The end result was 30 percent of his lettuce crop being lost.
Lettuce is a short season crop that needs to be grown both uniformly and consistently. What gets planted one week is ready to harvest in four to five weeks, with just one rain event creating problems with seeding and planting.
"Every year you count on having a week of weather where you really can’t get on the field and everything is packed up. In most years, it's a week. But in my 30-35 years of farming, this has been the first season that we've had that sort of continuous, week on week wet weather," said Vermuelen.
Source: theweathernetwork.com
