get used to the eerie quiet. Highway 75, which runs from the U.S. border to Winnipeg, remains closed under two metres of water. Residents say with no trucks roaring through the town as usual, and everyone hunkered down at home, Morris feels like a ghost town.

Flooding to last 'several more weeks'

Residents in the rest of the southern part of the province are being told to brace for "several more weeks" of washed out roads and fields that resemble lakes.

"Crests from St. Jean Baptiste to the floodway inlet are now expected to exceed those of 1979 by about 15.25 centimetres (half a foot)," reads the latest flooding bulletin on the government of Manitoba website.

"Once rivers have crested, there will be a gradual decline in levels. However, levels will remaingrows about 7,000 acres of corn and 600 acres of soybeans, along with more than 3,000 acres of green beans and greens such as spinach, collard, kale, mustard and turnips. He also has a beef and poultry enterprise.

Last year, Cullers hit 139.39 bu./acre on the same 40-acre sandy loam soil field using irrigation and conventional tillage. Ten acres were selected for the actual test. But even on his dryland acres and planting soybeans as a double-crop behind green beans, he averaged 60 bu./acre this year. The previous high is believed to be 118 bu./acre, set in 1993.

Cullers planted Pioneer 94M80 soybeans at 250,000 seeds/acre, ending up with a 220,000-plant stand at 6 in. tall. “That's a little higher than what universities recommend,” he admits. The Roundup Ready 94M80