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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture We hope that you can join us for our special session, Communities and Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability held at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Moncton, May 27-28 2004. Adaptation to Climate Change in Prairie Provinces. Details available through www.parc.ca/awards.htm Canadian Prairies Drought Workshop in Calgary Alberta, May 27-28 2004. Farmers brace for drought The Edmonton Sun | by Max Maudie | May 4, 2004 A looming Alberta drought threatens to create a cattle-industry catastrophe, say farmers. "We're right on the cusp," said Tony Saretsky, interim chairman of the Alberta Beef Industry Council. "The fallout of a drought will be absolute devastation." With a drought leaving little grazing grass, it will be too costly to buy feed for the animals, or simply not worth it. "Why get credit to purchase feed for animals you aren't likely to get a return from?" said Dave Solverson, who owns and operates a Camrose feedlot. Environment Canada's long-range forecasts for spring call for slightly below-average amounts of precipitation from Lloydminster to Slave Lake and below-average precipitation for the summer from Saskatchewan to B.C. Canada may face Worst Drought in Years Reuters | May 13, 2004 VANCOUVER, British Columbia-- With dry weather predicted for a third summer in a row, British Columbia may experience its worst drought since the Great Depression, water experts warned. "We're in such a drought situation that even if we did get torrential downpours for the next few weeks, it wouldn't matter," provincial fire information officer Nancy Argyle said Wednesday, "and the forecast is for the opposite of that." All for now, Ellen Wall Co-ordinator, C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network for Agriculture) Blackwood Hall (Room 202) University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 Phone: 519 824 4120 ext 58480 Fax: 519 763 4686 www.c-ciarn.uoguelph.ca |
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