Failure to close BRM gaps leaves farmers exposed

Failure to close BRM gaps leaves farmers exposed

Plants can be impressively resilient, as can the farmers that grow them. That’s a good thing, since Mother Nature has been less than kind this spring. The images out of the Swan River Valley, Shellmouth and Stonewall areas have been hard to keep track of and hard to watch, knowing how difficult life for those residents has suddenly become. When I sat down to start on this editorial, nine communities or municipalities were in a state of emergency…