We start with a weather update, where a water shortage in Manitoba is creating challenges for the province’s cattle producers. “We’ve got surface water conditions that are the lowest that I (can) recall,” Tyler Fulton, president of Manitoba Beef Producers, told the Western Producer. “If the current moisture situation… is not unprecedented, we’d have to go back 40 years to find something similar.” Dry conditions also have farmers in British Columbia’s Saanich Peninsula are irrigating early thanks to an unusually warm spring. CTV News reports. Meanwhile, south of the border, drought conditions in the Western U.S. are worsening. As CNN reports, drought is being experienced in 88 per cent of the region — with all areas of California, Oregon, Utah and Nevada listed as being in a drought.