Reading Time: < 1 minute Harvest progress continues to struggle as it improved by only a little more than one percentage point over the past week to 74.5 per cent complete and up only five percentage points over the last three weeks. Normally, harvest should be 95 per cent completed or better in all regions by this time period in […] Read more
Harvest progress a struggle, unmelted snow remains
Alberta crop conditions as of October 25
Producers wait on the weather to cooperate to resume harvest
Alberta crop conditions as of October 18
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fields in the North West, North East and Peace Regions as well as some areas in the Central Region received some more snow over the past weekend. Consequently, harvesting operations were practically at a standstill, changing less than one per cent provincially from last week with about 73 per cent of the crops now in […] Read more
Harvest halted. Snow flattens crops, covers swaths
Alberta crop conditions as of October 11
Reading Time: 2 minutes Compared to the long term normal (since 1960), most areas in Alberta experienced more snow for this time of the year than is typical. Over the past week, harvest has come to a halt due to snow flattening crops and covering swaths, followed by cold weather. It will take time for crops to dry up […] Read more
Provincial harvest further along, snow falls in the Peace
Alberta crop conditions as of October 4
Reading Time: 2 minutes Producers were able to take full advantage of a few days of good weather last week to push the provincial harvest percentage up to 69 per cent complete before wet weather again enveloped the province. Producers in the Peace region saw the first significant snowfall of the season with 15 cm covering much of the […] Read more
Harvest nears 50 per cent, wet soils slow progress
Alberta crop conditions as of September 27
Reading Time: < 1 minute Producers were able to harvest a further 14 per cent of crops this past week bringing the harvested total to near 50 per cent in spite of unsettled weather in all regions. All regions reported similar harvest progress for the week. Wet soils continue to hinder harvest operations necessitating the need to bypass acres with […] Read more
Wet, cool conditions continue to delay harvest
Alberta crop conditions as of September 13
Reading Time: 2 minutes Through early September, conditions have generally been cool and moderately wet. Over the past week, almost all Regions in the province have experienced hail. Additionally, a frost occurred between September 12 and 13 in most fields of the South, Central, North West and Peace Regions. The potential damage of hail or frost has not yet […] Read more
Wet weather slows harvest operations, halts some producers completely
Alberta crop conditions as of September 6
Reading Time: 2 minutes The wet weather over the past week slowed down or completely halted harvest operations in most areas across the province, especially the North East, North West and Peace Regions. The recent moisture will also have a potential impact on crop quality. Provincially, 16 per cent of the crop has been harvested (up seven per cent […] Read more
It may not be a record but this year’s hail damage will be close
The great white combine has been decimating crops across most of the province and adjusters are struggling to keep up with claims
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increased hailstorms across Alberta have crushed many crops, and hail claims are soaring this year. “We’re trending to be similar to 2012, which was the record claim year,” said Nikki Booth, communications manager with the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation. “At this point in time, it’s looking like we will not be as high as 2012, […] Read more
Wet weather continues to drag out harvest operations
Alberta crop conditions as of August 23
Reading Time: < 1 minute The wet weather pattern that has persisted throughout the entire growing season continued to affect the province this week with amounts varying from showers in the South to light rain in the Central and North East regions and heavy rain in the North West. Only the Peace received an extended period of dry weather which […] Read more
There’s a lot of truth in many sayings about the weather
Ones that predict what’s going to happen in the next little while make a lot of sense, but long-term predictions are pretty iffy
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are a number of different weather sayings, and weather folklore, that have their base in sound weather principles. For example, one of the most well-known sayings is, “Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.” This saying works pretty well and makes sense if you live in the […] Read more
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