{"id":18569,"date":"2025-07-23T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18569\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:16:11","slug":"getting-pretty-bleak-drought-conditions-lead-to-agricultural-disaster-for-interlake-rms-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18569\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Getting pretty bleak\u2019: Drought conditions lead to agricultural disaster for Interlake RMs – Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A number of rural municipalities in Manitoba\u2019s Interlake region are raising alarm bells about drought conditions and the effect they\u2019re having on local producers.<\/p>\n

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The RM of Coldwell, which includes the town of Lundar, is the latest to declare a state of agricultural disaster, while the RMs of Woodlands and St. Laurent have declared states of agricultural emergency.<\/p>\n

Coldwell reeve Virgil Johnson told Global Winnipeg that a dearth of rain has producers in the region\u2019s cattle industry scrambling.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last two weeks, it has really showed up \u2014 the pressure on the cattle industry here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all hoping for some rain, and the forecast told us we were going to get a sizable amount, but as it came to the rain days it just disappeared, basically.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRight now the cattle situation around here is getting kind of dire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Johnson said cattle farmers are moving their animals from pasture to pasture, but the pastures aren\u2019t having the opportunity to recover the way they have in previous years.<\/p>\n

\u201c(In) a normal year, you could swing them around back to that same pasture you took them out of \u2026 and this year, that\u2019s not happening anywhere in the RM. Once they\u2019re done with that pasture, there\u2019s basically no recovery, and farmers only have so much pasture. It\u2019s getting pretty bleak.\u201d<\/p>\n

The municipality has been in communication with the provincial agriculture minister, Johnson said, in hopes of finding a solution, and is reaching out to the minister\u2019s federal counterpart as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not looking good when farmers are averaging probably 25 per cent, and some are lucky to have a little bit more \u2014 but what industry can survive on a 25 per cent feed stock compared to a normal year?<\/p>\n

\u201cAny help for the producer is going to be a little bit of a burden off their backs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Global News has reached out to both the provincial and federal governments for a response.<\/p>\n

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