14-09-2012 09:06 AM | USA

Prairie surplus hay headed east

Western farm groups are planning to resurrect a program that would see surplus hay from the Prairies shipped east to drought-stricken producers in Ontario and Quebec.

The program, called Hay East, will pay back eastern farmers who shipped hay to drought-ravaged livestock producers in the Prairies in 2002, according to an official with the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan.
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