Farmers in the Quill Lakes region got much needed moisture over the last week.
Three and a half to four inches of rain fell, which was welcome to farmers that had usable farm land.
Quill Lake area farmer Dwight Odelein said when it comes to the overflow of the lake, levels have gone down from their peak.
“There’s some private land that has come back, but not very much,” Odelein said. “We need another reduction; another meter would be nice, but the next 50 centimeters, people would start to regain some land back, that’s providing it stays below normal precipitation, whatever normal is anymore.”
Odelein said field conditions have improved.
“The potential of the crop is reduced somewhat because it was just dry too long,” Odelein said. “We’re still at 70-75%, 100% being the best crop of course, so all in all, there’s still potential, it has to rain some more having said that, and it’s really helped the hay crop as well.”
Odelein estimated that only a half an inch of rain fell from the start of spring to the first big storm last week, which allowed for a lot of water to dry up.
