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CBCThe cost of drought in the Prairies could reach billions of dollars. Climatologist Ray Garnett says the economic impact of the drought on farmers could be $3 billion this year. Garnett says that figure does not include the spin-off effect on other workers in the grain industry.
-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), August 13, 2001