Wildfires and tinderbox conditions aren’t the only challenge for farmers in New Brunswick, as some in the agriculture industry find themselves struggling to work around a ban on entering Crown land.
Conditions trending bad, but not yet worst-case scenario for some farmers
Sam Farley · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 14, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
Arick Streatch, a farmer with Sunberry Cranberry Producers, says cranberry farmers rely on water not only for harvest but to keep moisture content at a reasonable level. (Cranberries N.B./Facebook)
Wildfires and tinderbox conditions are a challenge for farmers in New Brunswick this summer.
“Right now a lot of cranberry farmers are losing a lot of their water,” said Arick Streatch, a farmer with Sunberry Cranberry Producers in Maugerville, just outside Fredericton.
“Cranberry farmers rely on water not only for harvest time when we flood, but for sizing our berries up and for keeping the moisture content at a reasonable level.”
New Brunswick and other regions in Canada have endured hot and dry conditions over the last several days. A multi-day Environment Canada heat warning is expected to end after Wednesday.
Stretch said his farm is still able to draw water from a century-old canal at the back of the farm, so it’s not the worst-case scenario just yet.
He said that these are the hottest conditions he’s seen in the last six years of farming and that harvesting cranberries in the fall,
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