This year's drought takes a bite out of Kingston-area farm crop yields

KINGSTON — The summer drought in Eastern Ontario was a reminder to many local farmers of the challenges farmers in developing countries face every year, said a representative of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. “There’s a lot of crops that are really suffering and you’re seeing that because, of course, we get a lot of support from growing projects,” said Henry Reinders, the organization’s Ontario and Quebec regional representative, who was in Kingston to meet wit