A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Dry spring impaired
local hay production

By JESSIE GIES
HAY PRODUCTION is
down this year due to an
unusually dry spring, says
Diana Penner of Brouwer’s
Farm on Braun's Island.

“Our crop was down
about a third this year,”
she said.

In a good year, the 30-
acre crop yields between
2,500 and 3,000 square
bales. This year, there was
only enough hay to make
2,000 bales. »

Hay cutting is norrnally
done in the beginning of
July but was delayed this
year until the third week of
the month.

“We waited a long
time,” she said.

Other farmers in the

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' poor year,” said Janet
Munson, who grows 90
acres of hay in Old Remo
with her husband, Ian.

Her crop near the Skee-
na river wasn't affected as
much as farmers in areas
of higher elevation.

“Most people I know
are down half of [the
amount of hay] they usual-
ly get, mostly due to fact
we haven't got the weather
when we needed it,” she
said.

Munson added farms
further east have had less
production this year than
those in Terrace.

Wayne Webber, owner

JUSTIN, KIMBERLY and Henry Penner rest at the
end of another hard day’s work on their Braun's Is-
land hay field. An unusually dry spring resulted in
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DIANA PENNER PHOTO

of Copperside Stables by
the Copper River, says it’s
been difficulty getting en-
ough hay to. winter his 40
horses.
He normally gets hay
supplied to him from a far-
mer near Smithers, but he

‘said the farmer has’ left

him 1,500 bales short this
year.
’ “Because of the dry

season, the farmers say
there’s 30 per cent less
crop on their fields,” Web-
ber said, ,

He added high fuel and
energy costs compounded
by a bad crop year have
worsened the problem.

“The combination is
putting hay prices up,” he
said,

Thief ties up restaurant
workers, cuts phone line

AN ARMED robber wield-
ing a knife tied up two
employees before making
off with an undisclosed
sum of cash from a down-
town restaurant last week.
The two Pizza Hut em-
ployees were unharmed,
Cnst. Natasha Roberts of
the Terrace RCMP said,
adding the incident took
place at 11:05 p.m. Aug.
24, just after closing, so no
customers were around.
The manager was just
about to lock the door

when a lone male entered
the Lazelle Ave. restaur-
ant, Roberts said.

After tying two employ-
ees up with rope, the sus-
pect then cut the tele-
phone line inside the rest-
aurant. After the. robber
fled the scene, the witnes-
ses. were able .to free
themselves and then con-
tact police from a‘ nearby
business.

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say was used a5 a getaway

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