Salmon River flooding may be over but the effects on local farmers are not.

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May is a dairy farmer with about 80 acres of land on both sides of the river.

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He says the water was high for so long, it killed everything submerged. On the bright side, the new three- or four-acre lake did provide a little kayaking fun for his kids.

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The corn land is a little different, he says, as it was planted a bit later and is planted every year.

May says the 60 acres have just dried up now, so he hopes to reseed.

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Neither his cattle nor his barns or home were reached, though.

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DeMille began farming in Salmon Arm in 1969 and says he missed the floods of 1949.

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