US EditionClimate change: Droughts, heavy rain turn Canada’s pumpkin harvest spooky
- Severe weather caused by climate change has devastated the pumpkin harvest in Canada and the United States.
- Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill and Alberta pumpkin farmer Mike Williams both experienced the worst harvests in their farming careers due to droughts and heavy rains caused by climate change.
- Some growers in states like Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado suffered significant losses and decreased yields as a result of the severe weather.
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FREDERICTON — Les conditions météorologiques extrêmes causées par les changements climatiques, soit des sécheresses suivies de fortes pluies, ont ravagé les récoltes de citrouilles partout au Canada cette année. Le producteur de citrouilles de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Danny Dill, a affirmé que la saison de plantation du printemps a été extrêmement sèche. Une période de temps chaud, suivie de près de deux semaines d’incendies de forêt historiques, à l…
Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada’s pumpkin season - Red Deer Advocate
Extreme weather caused by climate change — droughts followed by heavy rains — wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year. Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill said the spring planting season was extremely dry. A spell of hot weather and then nearly two weeks of historic wildfires in late May and early June left behind more than 235 square kilometres of scorched ground. “It was just like a dust bowl there,” said Dill, owner o…
Spooky harvest: Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada's pumpkin season
FREDERICTON — Extreme weather caused by climate change — droughts followed by heavy rains — wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year. Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill said the spring planting season was extremely dry.
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