When the Hill brothers planted sunflowers on their Spring Ridge property they didn’t expect to be harvesting the crop in board shorts.
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Thomas, Duncan and Lindsay Hill purchased Maloka approximately 18 months ago which is situated in Goran Lake, a body of water that is predominately dry.
Duncan said a deluge of seven to eight inches of rain in three to four hours at the end of March saw a once dry lake begin to fill up, inundating their sunflower crop with water.
“We haven’t seen this happen before, but we’ve heard it from others out there of it happening in the past,” Duncan said.
The brothers purchased a four-wheel-drive header, to harvest their crop in the water. He said although water-logged, what has been harvested has been a quality product.
“The heads didn’t fill up thankfully, but some [sunflowers] died before they fully matured. The yield is certainly down, but what’s there is decent quality. It’s a shame because sunflowers have been worth a bit of money,” Duncan said.