Wet weather stalls harvest for some

A blast of snow and rain has forced some farmers in Saskatchewan to interrupt this year's harvest.

As well, many farmers are racing to get crops swathed before damaging frost — which has been forecast for several nights — arrives.

Daryl Frank farms near Southey, north of Regina. His fields have received a year's worth of rain in the past two weeks.

"We just keep on getting more and more rain. And, things are delayed even more," Frank told CBC News Tuesday. "Days like today we can't get into the field to get anything done."

Usually, Frank said the harvest would be half over by this time of year. Instead, he has barely begun to take the crop off. He added he likely won't be able to get back onto the fields until next week at the earliest.

Frank said damp weather has been been a problem all season long.

"We're just so wet going into the year with all the snow from winter, that made it really difficult right from the start, and now the water's just building up everywhere."