With a very wet start to the spring and summer, farmers found that they had the opposite problem from last year, where it went from a drought to now having crops being rained out.

Shawn Cabak, Forage livestock specialist with Manitoba Agriculture says farmers have been dealing with around 150 per cent of the average rainfall in a year so far. Some of the highest amounts that we've seen include Arborg at 218 per cent of their average rainfall, Alonsa at 203 per cent, and Riverton at 202 per cent.

Cabak goes into detail on how impactful the dry spell we're currently seeing will be for the future.

"If we look what our set normal corn heat units were across the province, we're ranging from 95 to 105 per cent," explains Cabak. "So, additional heat will benefit the crops that went in on the later side because of the wet spring."

He adds most of the crops that are grown locally, including cereal, corn, and soybeans will all benefit from the break. Cabak also notes it will still be important for these crops to receive some moisture as we make our way toward harvesting season.

"In particular, we probably have enough for shorter season crops and earlier crops such as our cereals and our canola," explains Cabak.

He says while the excessive moisture was a problem to start the year, it will still yield more positive results as opposed to the drought that was seen last year.