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On August 25, CBC reported that farmers in Manitoba’s Interlake region are trying to salvage what’s left of their crops after heavy rain in the past few days has caused flooding in much of the area. Two roads were flooded and virtually every ditch and culvert was filled with water in the Bifrost area, about 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, after a storm system moved out of the area. A flood warning issued for the Interlake area late last week ended, but overland flooding was expected to continue. The Interlake received above-average rainfall in both May and June, and received twice the average in July, which left the ground saturated and water levels high in the area even before the weekend storm. The storm dropped more than 106 millimetres of rain in some areas. Manitoba’s Agriculture Minister announced the launch of a forage assistance program to help cattle producers access feed supplies for their animals.
(Source: CBC, 25 August 2008)
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