It has been a frustrating couple of weeks for farmers here in the southeast. The harvest has been repeatedly interrupted by rain and snow. Ken Krahn at Niverville says they are close to finished and are hoping for a change to warmer, dryer weather.

"We are midway through our corn, we did about 400 acres and we've got about 400 to go. The moisture in the corn is still a bit high and drying costs are a little bit higher than we'd like, so we're going to wait and hopefully we're going to get some Indian Summer here yet and then we'll get the rest of the corn off. We'd also like to put down some fertilizer for some of next year's crops. That, right now, is on hold too because it's just a bit too muddy and too wet."

Brian Dueck at Seine River Seed Farms at Ste. Anne says he is finished with the harvest, noting he does not have any corn or sunflowers. But he adds many other farmers still have a lot of corn and soybeans in the field and need a two week stretch of nice weather to finish the harvest. Dueck says despite the hot, dry summer and early fall snow, he doesn't consider this year to be more stressful than others.

"I would say the stress was pretty average because every year has its challenges. Sometimes it's just too wet all year, sometimes it's too dry, it's called farming. I always say, I don't need to go to Vegas to gamble because I gamble every year to farm."

Krahn says he too does not find this year more stressful than others.

"I don't think so. We've been through these kinds of cycles before. For myself, I can handle that. But certainly we'd like sunshine and warmer weather so we can continue and focus our attention on other things."

Both say they will probably look back on 2018 as an average crop year.