Farmer Matthieu Mauduit shows a canola plant cut by cutworms to agronomist Josée Falardeau.
Farmers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue are expecting major financial losses as cutworms ravage their crops.Posted: Jun 28, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago
Cutworms are found every year in small quantities in market gardens. But producers are saying the insects have destroyed large areas of plants sown at the beginning of June, something they don't normally see. Farmer Matthieu Mauduit had the unpleasant surprise a few days ago of finding his canola plants cut and eaten by worms.The farmer, who cultivates nearly 800 acres in Témiscamingue, hopes to be able to save part of his plants in the municipality of Lorrainville, although he already estimates his losses to be $65,000, which represents between 25 and 30 per cent of his harvest.
"They were the beets that I planned to put in my first baskets, and it has to be said, when you make vegetable baskets, the first baskets are the most difficult to produce," said Lambert, co-owner of the organic market garden farm Le Potager Jaseur.
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