Reading Time: 3 minutes After a year that’s had all the right kinds of weather at all the wrong times, southern Alberta’s harvest was approaching three-quarters in the bin last week. Some crops are much better than expected, others not so good, making averages around normal. Quality was a concern for all crops with the cool wet weather in […] Read more
Harvest Turning Out “Not Too Bad” Across South
FCC Brings Top Brass To Lethbridge Public Meeting
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Farm Credit Corporation (FCC) held its annual public meeting in southern Alberta last month. President and CEO Greg Stewart along with senior officers and board members mingled with area clients and others at a meeting to showcase the corporation and its role in Canada’s agriculture. The Lethbridge event was the third such meeting, following […] Read more
Water Market Win-Win — For Now
Reading Time: 3 minutes “The M.D. has the water they need for development and we have the cash.” Selling water rights can be a win-win with buyers, sellers and the environment all gaining, according to the man behind the water sale that’s the biggest in Alberta so far. Jim Webber is general manager of the Western Irrigation District (WID), […] Read more
Alberta’s One-Stop Water Information Spot
Reading Time: 2 minutes “We wanted to make it easier for all Albertans to find and share information on water.” Alberta may have one of the simplest ways around to access water information that’s important to people in the province. It’s a web portal (www.albertawater.com), a virtual library of every sort of information that’s available on our water. The […] Read more
Petroleum And Mining Concerns Slow Water Policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes “We’ve already lost 63 per cent of the wetlands in the settled area of the province. We don’t want that to happen up north as well.” The Alberta government has committed to its Water for Life strategy – that Albertans have access to safe and secure drinking water, healthy aquatic ecosystems and reliable, sustainable water […] Read more
Special Crops Take The Brunt Of Frost
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It’s strange to talk of plants being acclimatized to cold in June, but that’s what we had” It would be had to call this year’s cool spring a blessing, but if there had to be a frost on June 7, it probably was. Alberta Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) has had more than 500 reseeding claims […] Read more
Short Lines Coming Back To Alberta?
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Farmers can work together to market their own grain. It’s an old idea, but it worked before.” AF contributor Alberta had the first short line railway on the Prairies in the 1980s, but it ceased operation, leaving Saskatchewan to embrace the idea – it has eight short line railways with more to come this year. […] Read more
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