Food And Rural Affairs: Ontario

Ted McMeekin Dept: "There are places where it's clearly a drought, the crop in many parts of Ontario are showing the signs of distress," said Ted McMeekin, the province's minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, according to CBC. "Thirty years of farming and I've never seen anything like this," said farmer John Vuckovic, whose 56 hectares of corn are so dry that the soil is cracking. The stalks should be over his head by now; instead, they are waist-high and ontario's minister of agriculture is warning that the dry weather dominating the province will lead to higher food prices in the fall. Months of little or no rain is taking a toll on Ontario farmers, with many bracing for huge losses. McMeekin travelled to West Lincoln, Ont., on Tuesday to see the damage first-hand. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.