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Dale Boyd

Dale Boyd

Journalist with CBC Kelowna covering the Okanagan region of British Columbia.

Jul 16, 2026

Angus Verley
Angus VerleyCORRESPONDENT
19:30
So I suppose this moisture, particularly the deep moisture, could very much come in handy.
19:36
Yeah, the deep moisture is always an important reserve to draw upon.
19:40
Generally, in most average springs, we're going to get an absence of rainfall for a period of time and, yeah, the crops will draw from the deeper reserves.
19:50
So the scenario we're looking at this stage for this year is, you know, the longer we can prolong the dip into those moisture reserves, the better, and then that will extend our season further with the crop being able to access readily plant-available water.
20:07
I guess the crops have been growing for three months.
20:10
So I'd be expecting that if the wheat is growing at a root development of one centimetre a day, they should be moving their roots down to 80 centimetres, 90.
20:21
So they're certainly setting up that root architecture to tap into the deeper reserves if required in that spring period.
Angus Verley
Angus VerleyCORRESPONDENT
20:44
I suppose those big crops will be very thirsty crops.

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