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Published: 2011-05-15 03:28:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 641; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 0
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The road to get to one of our cattle pastures. This is flood water backing up from Lake Manitoba. Notice the Spoonbill pair sitting on the road, and a Yellow-headed Blackbird and a Snipe just behind them. The buildings in the background are a hunting lodge and only used in the fall. The land on either side of the road was pasture land for cattle.Road 80 north, Manitoba Canada
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It was a very stressful year but we got through it.
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I can understand how you feel abut the whole flooding bit, my in-laws lived along lake man and were evacuated in mid june they ended up having to buy a house and move it to town so they would have a place to live during this flood because the RM would not find a place for them to stay this fall and said the lake was unsafe even though the dikes were holding and the lake is down several feet from its peak and no water even touched any of the homes where they lived. I can only hope the farmers like yourself that have had their livelyhoods sacrificed for this flood recive proper compensation for this atrocity the government submitted them to. my fear is that they will forget about us and that with the recent land assessments that are being handed out that if anyone needs to be bought out they will not recieve proper payment. my heart is with anyone who had to suffer this flood nedlessly
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It certainly has been a stressful year for so many people who live all around the lake. We lost all of our hay land. Our once beautiful alfalfa fields are now nothing but solid bulrushes. We have had to buy hay to feed our cattle this winter and will probably have to reduce our herd as we don't have enough to keep them all. There is supposed to be compensation from the Govt. for loss of our hay crop but so far we haven't seen a dime. My husband has been farming here his whole life and has never seen anything like it.
We live near the St. Ambroise Provincial Park and it has been totally decimated and there will probably never be a campground there again. It is so sad to see.
I hope that your in-laws will be able to move back to their home. Thank you for your kind comments. So many people don't really know what is going on.
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I walked into the St. Ambroise park a few times throughout the summer and each time it made me sick I spent my summers there as a kid. It was probably the nicest place on the lake. I only walked in as far a the blue bathrooms and by that point is was starting to get dark so we truned around but I just couldnt believe that something so beutiful could be gone in shuch a short time. As for compensation has far as i've heard no one I know has gotten anything yet. Hope you and your husband make it through the winter ok and that the lake is lower next summer, and that the lake will one day return to its former beauty
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Oh my....
I don't know anything else to say........
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Yes, there is crop insurance here Bob. It is mostly purchased for grain crops. We have never gotten it for our hay crop. Some of our hay is native tame hay, some is marsh hay, and we have alfalfa that we have been re-seeding over the last couple of years, hoping to make the land more valuable. (our retirement investment so to speak) All the alfalfa is now drowned and will have to be reseeded. There is supposed to be a special flood program coming out to compensate livestock producers for lost hay land and pasture. We will wait and see what that entails. Don't know where anyone is going to buy hay as everyone is in the same boat. The high water level looks like it is here to stay so it make take years for them to get Lake Manitoba down to normal, and there is just more and more rain in the forecast.
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I would imagine that there will be hay bought from the U.S. and other places in Canada that might not be affected as badly. I was curious about the Alfalfa, That's a cash crop where Alice was from, they sold it to the horse people to mix with regular feed. I guess from what Alice says they supplement cattle feed with it as well. I never claim to be a rancher or farmer. I know deer, and wild beasties, but not much about cattle and such. Just hope the government can help.
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Our alfalfa is not quite the rich quality they feed to horses, which they sometimes can get 3 cuts from a year. We only get one cut a year, (our land is stoney) but it is good quality for cattle. All of the southern prairie provinces are extremely wet this year. I heard one report that said that there will be 6-8 million acres go unseeded, and that's just grain land, not any pasture or hay land.
It's just crazy weather everywhere. Where our boys live in northern Alberta (Fort McMurray) firefighters are battling one of the largest forest fires in Alberta's history. If only we could just send them a little water.
You guys take care now.
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Candie, I really don't know what to say in this situation... You and Fred have been ranching/farming a long time. I guess in that business, it never is really the same every year, and it's so dependent on the weather and what the cattle do.There's not a thing I can say that will really help, other than you guys are made of strong stuff and you'll make it one way or the other.
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hehe. looks like here where i am in Saskatchewan, its flooded everywhere almost
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Yes indeed. It will affect many rural people and their livelihoods.
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yea we only got one field seeded, the rest are way to wet and soft, or they under water...
This is a road near our place, about 2 miles or so from my house.... it under water for a whole mile.. -->[link]
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It's going to be a bad year for a lot of farm folks.
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Sad that it is Candace its a great image with all the birds visiting those new wetlands.
Great Composition and I really like those dead grasses amongst all that water..
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Yup, the ducks and water birds are lovin it. The muskrats have moved in and are building houses along the fence line in the ditch, and there are carp (fish) swimming in the pasture. It's just crazy.
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I bet the birds are loving it, muskrats OH that's one I dont know so I am off to Goggle it
Mrs Google says The muskrat is a medium-sized semi-aquatic rodent native to North America.
She is so clever and knows everything.. I would not fancy them running around either
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Thanks 
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Aww! Wonderful shot even if it is about this terrible flooding.
I am talking about technique of course!
Perfect DOF and beautiful tones!
I wish you good luck, I didn't have time to read newspaper or to listen to TV. I hope it is over for now and that you didn't suffer from it!
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Thank you Jocelyn. I'm glad you like it. The ducks seem to be the only happy ones about all the water. I'm afraid we are not out of the woods yet. The water levels on Lake Manitoba will remain very high for much of the summer covering a lot of hay and pasture land. It will take land out of production for many ranchers and farmers. A lot of ranchers have had to find alternate summer pasture for their cattle. Our cattle pastures are ok so far, but it looks like most of our alfalfa and hay land will be drowned out. It's just a wait and see game now.
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Looks like the cows will have to be fitted with water wings. - What a mess!!
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Wow Candace... you be careful with all that water and stay safe!
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Freezing cold for several months in a row followed by the dreaded Spring thaw...it's not an easy place to live in but it has it's qualities too.
On the bright side ,You have your OWN personal lake & lots of subject matter to photograph.
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I like your positive attitude Gloria.
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