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Quebec and Ontario farmers to receive help from Hay East 2012

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(CRC)—While U.S. Midwest wheat farmers suffered severe drought conditions and disaster crops, Canadian Prairie farmers harvested bumper crops.

The drought in Canada has mostly hit hay farmers in Quebec and Ontario. Unable to feed their cattle for the coming winter months, they are set to receive help through the Hay East 2012 program organized by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the Quebec Farmers Association and the Mennonite Disaster Services. Under this program, Saskatchewan and Alberta farmers will send hay by the CN, CP and trucks to Eastern Canada. Nearly 300 farmers have submitted requests for up over 70,000 large bales of hay to be sent to Canada’s two most populous provinces. The federal and provincial governments are set to share the cost of transportation with these private efforts.

The campaign comes a decade after Alberta farmers were similarly bailed out by eastern hay farmers in 2002.