Some farmers in southern Alberta are expressing discontent with this year's harvest after a hot and dry growing season.
Despite cooler and wetter weather late in the summer, Stephen Vandervalk, who farms outside of Fort Macleod, says the damage had already been done.
"So those crops actually turned out to be a little above average, but the other two-thirds of the farm was a wreck, or even three-quarters."While the declarations don't translate to automatic compensation for growers, they are a signal that government support is needed. "Due to the extreme shortfall of moisture during the early part of the growing season, the crops were, on average, quite poor," said Kelly Malmberg, director of agriculture for Vulcan County.
Farmers are already hoping to get next year's growing season back on track, hoping for fall rain to recharge the soil and a snowy winter to build up the snowpack, increasing water supply.
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