“We really need to step up engagement... involvement by heads of government directly, strategically and long-term with their counterparts.”

Lakeside Dairy added an on-site cheese factory during the rebuild from devastating 2017 fire, and is now selling their creations around Edmonton.

Key findings include the more than $2.2 billion in gross farm receipts generated in Lethbridge County, making it the only municipality in Alberta to reach this amount. 

A clearer picture is emerging about the impact of government layoffs in southern Alberta. Many of the job losses involve Alberta Agriculture and Forestry employees.

A very small part of southern Alberta is home to the only place in all of Canada that grows and refines sugar beets. On Thursday consumers got an up-close look at how a sugar beet operation works.

Kenney says the money is to be used to modernize and build new irrigation infrastructure and increase water storage capacity.

After such a wet summer, expectations were low for this year's harvest on some northern Alberta fields.

Local farmers are inviting Albertans to get a deeper understanding of resources made in their own province.

“It's a relief to see as much canola disappearing from Canada as has been, and that is kind of driving a price rally at this time."

Corn farmer James Johnson lost as much as 90 per cent of his 2019 crop due to hail last August, and 2020 has already seen some hail-related losses.