STRATFORD, P.E.I. — Across Prince Edward Island, farmers are coming to grips with the full impact of post-tropical storm Fiona. Oceanbrae Farms’ herd of ...
Ryan Barrett brings in his family's purebred milking shorthorns on Sept. 25. They were out in their pasture after post-tropical storm Fiona destroyed their barn. - ContributedSTRATFORD, P.E.I. — Across Prince Edward Island, farmers are coming to grips with the full impact of post-tropical storm Fiona.“It’s been a huge hit to the farm, a huge loss,” said Margaret Barrett, when she spoke to SaltWire Network on Sept.
“ role the last few days has simply been reestablishing connection with our commodity groups, trying to understand what’s taken place in Prince Edward Island agriculture and … to ensure the impact to agriculture is as limited as possible,” he said. “We need to be answering that question about where is this commercial generation capacity, can this be part of the aid to Prince Edward Island in response to Fiona, and it’s never too early to start thinking about this problem of how we’re going to store this crop.”
“So now it’s a question of how much of it can we harvest. We’re talking to our partners in other Atlantic provinces to see where there’s extra capacity and if we can bring that capacity in,” he said.Fruits and vegetables Greg MacKenzie of MacKenzie Produce in Stratford said they spent two whole days preparing for the storm. Their staff of 15 removed the plastic from all their greenhouses and strapped together all of their pallet boxes after losing 600 in hurricane Juan in 2003, he told SaltWire Network at his farm Sept. 28.“Farmers do it because they love to farm, and something like this may take an operation that’s getting by and ultimately tip the balance sheet in a way that’s not sustainable.
She’s not sure when the farm will reopen its farm stand, and they haven’t been getting orders from their usual wholesale buyers, either.
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