This year's potato crop in the Pembina Valley is looking good thanks to some heavy irrigation work.

 

August 2, 2006 

 

This year's potato crop in the Pembina Valley is looking good thanks to some heavy irrigation work.


Producers have been drawing down their reservoirs this summer due to the hot, dry conditions.


Wayne Rempel of Agassiz Irrigation Association says under the extreme heat, growers have been pumping close to 1.5 inches of water onto their crops per week.


That's about 40-thousand gallons of water an acre per week.


Rempel says most reservoirs from the U-S Border to Winkler still have a good supply of water.


He says reservoirs North of Winkler, where very little rain has fallen since Spring, are almost empty.