A grain marketer says wildfire smoke has delayed crop development and harvest throughout many regions of Canada.

Ken Whitelaw with Synergy Grain Trading is based in southern Ontario.

“We had the effects of the smoke and wildfires in our backyard here and we certainly saw crop development in southern Ontario probably about two weeks behind the average,” he says.

He tells Brownfield despite the delays, early projections were for a record corn crop, but wet weather has caused significant vomitoxin concerns.

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