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S.E. Sask. | Yes, 88 was the worst in my memory. Intense, unrelenting heat all through June and July made for short thin crops. What little was harvested was excellent quality and harvest went fast and early. My Dad always talked of 1961 being the worst he ever experienced although I don't recall much of it. Pictures of the yard that summer show no grass, just bare dirt. He cut most of the crop with a mower and baled it for cattle feed. What he did combine might have done 10 bushels per acre.
1937 was supposed to be about the worst prior to that. Wheat and oats so short that the binders could not tie a sheaf in some cases. No weed control so lots of russian thistles for cattle feed. Other than that we have been pretty fortunate. | |
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Past Droughts
